Intel Demonstrates WiMAX Connection 2300 for Laptops

Intel this week announced design completion of its first mobile WiMAX baseband chip. Combined with the company’s previously announced single-chip, multi-band WiMAX/Wi-Fi radio, the pair creates a complete chipset called the Intel WiMAX Connection 2300, the Intel’s press release says.

Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Sean Maloney at the 3G World Congress in Hong Kong showed an Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology-based notebook with mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005), Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n), and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) 3G capabilities successfully accessing the Internet at broadband speeds over a mobile WiMAX network.

According to the press release, the completed design of the Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 brings Intel a step closer to an integrated wireless system-on-chip that will help drive WiMAX adoption by maximizing useable space in mobile devices. As laptops become smaller, for example, they will have limited space for new technologies. Integration also helps enable ubiquitous connectivity on ultra mobile PCs, consumer electronics and handheld devices that have significant size constraints for the number of cards or components.

Intel plans to sample WiMAX Connection 2300 chipset, both card and module forms, beginning in late 2007.