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Intel Working on Agile Wireless Chip

Posted by Hemos on from the new-developments dept.

Rob writes "Computer Business Review is reporting that Intel has announced that its scientists had invented a new type of chip that can process signals from different types of wireless networks. The chip also could handle upcoming WiMax technology, that promises wireless internet connectivity for up to 30 miles, and future flavors of WiFi."

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  1. Holy Grail by markild · · Score: 4, Funny

    This type of agile chip is the "holy grail for Intel," said Sam Lucero, an analyst at research shop IDC.

    Let's see if they manages to find it then :P

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    1. Re:Holy Grail by pizen · · Score: 4, Funny


      I told them we've already got one.
      </AMD in horrible French accent>

    2. Re:Holy Grail by leathered · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's see if they manages to find it then :P

      Everyone knows it's at the Castle Arrggh.

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  2. Re:Linux? by forkazoo · · Score: 1, Funny
    I doubt it's going to support Linux, ah well, I'll just use a real os then.

    May I suggest The Hurd?


    Oh, no. This is an *Intel* chip. It will be best used with Mac OS X, of course.
  3. Intel invents firmware! by RealProgrammer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hot on the heels of its stunning disclosure of the "heat sink", which someday may allow computers to have processors that never overheat no matter how far they're overclocked, Intel has invented "firmware".

    Firmware will allow the electronics giant to reprogram its chips when new standards are developed. That should help Intel avoid a replay of the wireless Centrino debacle, in which they were shipping 10Mhz mobile chips into a market driven by 54Mhz base stations.

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  4. Re:Woo hoo! by justforaday · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm on a college campus, so if I walk down the street, I can see almost dozens of seperate wireless networks

    Does one of those happen to be called "linksys"?

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  5. Re:No, the point of the work is... by justforaday · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool! Then we'll all be able to communicate with Ponch and John...

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  6. Re:Wacky Names by mister_llah · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think if I wind up setting up a WiFi network, I will name it WORKGROUP, just for old time's sake... :)

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  7. Verizon Guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    With this new chip, I can see the Verizon guy going, "Can you hack me now? Good!"