At the event of Intel’s annual developer forum in San Francisco yesterday, Intel has decided to include mobile WiMAX technology in its laptop chipsets. The first Intel’s mobile WiMAX chip is constructed based on the previously announced single-chip that added with multi-band WiMAX/Wi-Fi radio feature. The official name of the chipset is Intel® WiMAX Connection 2300. Intel’s mission is to deliver the user the best experiences of being always connected with the Internet.

Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, said that he has predicted that 1.3 billion people to be in range of WiMAX wireless broadband networks by 2012, and up from 750 million in 2010 and 150 million next year. Moreover, Intel would seek to build WiMAX chips into laptops and mobile devices in the same way as it has done with Wi-Fi chips.

Intel will release its new laptop chipset by the middle of next year with the codename is “Montevina”. Montevina is the update of Centrino laptop chipset. It will accommodate both Wi-Fi networking and WiMAX, which is means that the chipset will extends wireless broadband access across larger distances and at greater data transfer speeds.

Intel has made itself a step closer to an integrated wireless system-on-chip with Intel WiMAX Connection 2004 chip that will help drive WiMAX adoption by maximizing useable space in mobile device. Intel has stated that as laptops become smaller, it will have limited space for new technologies, the integration will help the company to enable ubiquitous connectivity on ultra mobile PCs, consumer electronics and handheld devices, which are having significant size constraints for the number of cards or components.

Many hardware vendors have decided to embed WiMAX feature in their laptops. Those vendors are Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Panasonic and Toshiba. Unfortunately, Dell and HP, which are the computer maker giants, are conspicuously absent from the line-up.

WiMAX is less expensive than cellular infrastructure to roll out. If the license has been gotten then the providers can put up a tower for reasonable money. The technology has been developing to provide a service as reliable as the good old (telephone) network, and the bandwidth can be superior to DSL (Direct Subscriber Line) depending on the amount of spectrum that have allocated.

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