Broadcom Wireless N News
In a recent development, Broadcom has announced that they have successfully put 802.11n wireless networking fast Wi-Fi on a single chip. What this means is cheaper Wi-Fi. Gordon Lindsay, Broadcom's European wireless product manager stated, "This will make life significantly easier for people developing 802.11n solutions. It uses our 65nm tech, and is half the size of our previous devices, and cuts the power demand by 50 percent to a more manageable 1.6w." This chip will be announced at the Global Wi-Fi Summit in Beijing. It will be able to fit on a PCI Express Mini Card, in laptops and access points, is a dual-band 802.11n system, and includes the power amps to drive the radios. Broadcom is hoping to see it go in other consumer devices as well, TV's and camcorders specifically. "The momentum is building, and we have interest even from manufacturers who rejected 802.11g," Lindsay said. He also stated, "Where the enterprise market is concerned, we're in a don't-care situation. We see laptop manufacturers going for dual band solutions - what Cisco and everyone else does from the network side is up to them." It is expeceted to be in products on shelves in Q1 of 2008.