Intel goes full board on WiMax - CES Notebook: Chip maker uses car to show capability of technology

MarketWatch ^ | 11:36 p.m. EST Jan. 8, 2008 | y Therese Poletti & Dan Gallagher, MarketWatch

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LAS VEGAS (MarketWatch) - Intel Corp. demonstrated that its commitment to WiMax, a next generation wireless technology, has not wavered even after the collapse of a important partnership between Sprint and Clearwire - two of the technology's strongest proponents - in November.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, the Santa Clara chip maker used a small fleet of cars to drive the press and other guests around to demonstrate the power of the wide-ranging wireless technology. WiMax, which has a much larger range than the popular Wi-Fi standard, can be used in rural environments, congested cities with skyscrapers, and mountainous regions. Users don't have to stay within the range of a hot spot, as is necessary with Wi-Fi currently.

The car that drove a few miles around the Las Vegas Convention Center was rigged with an Intel-based "info-tainment" system, with an in-dashboard personal computer that was connected to the Internet almost the entire time we drove around. We listened to an audio stream of Diana Krall and called an Intel PR rep in Oregon using an Internet-based phone (using voice over Internet protocol). At one point, we drove down Desert Inn Road at nearly 50 miles an hour and we did not lose the signal.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I want one.

[nevergore]

Big wup!

The only bidders for the 700MHZ freq will be the major LEC’s who intend to control it’s release....nice and slow.....

Wi-Max will be not that big of a deal.....

The new 4G standard will be...just have to wait till about 2012....

[ShadowAce]