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Intel Demos Software Defined WiFi/WiMAX/DVB-H Chip

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-in-wonderful dept.

Doc Ruby writes "Electronics Weekly is reporting that Intel has developed a new prototype chip for software defined radio. The new chip will be able to handle WiFi, WiMAX and DVB-H digital TV all on the same chip. 'This kind of chip would allow equipment to access the WiFi network in the home, automatically handover to a WiMAX network when you leave the house and also access digital TV on the move, all through one chip.' It's also a proof that the entire class of SW radios that could possibly converge CDMA, GSM and various other radio networks for opportunistic handoffs by a single device, a 'universal radio' that could use content formerly locked into a single radio type."

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  1. Closed drivers by CRCulver · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And presumably the drivers for this will be closed source because of that dumb FCC rule that end-users shouldn't be able to tinker with wi-fi chips because they are a dangerous radio device.

  2. Sounds great but... by phatvw · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You still have a fundamental problem with radio communications - how to tune the antenna for multiple frequency bands in a small package. Not an easy task.