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Intel Merging Wi-Fi with WiMax

RED HERRING | Intel Merging Wi-Fi with WiMax : "The success of Centrino laptop chips not only taught Intel the lesson about creating less power-hungry chips, it also opened the chip maker’s eyes to new markets in wireless devices and Internet access. This focus on selling chips to the wireless market has led to huge investments in Wi-Fi and WiMax technologies. The chip giant already made Wi-Fi popular by bundling processors with Wi-Fi radios. It also has championed WiMax, a technology that delivers much wider coverage than Wi-Fi. How Intel plans to popularize WiMax became clearer on Tuesday when Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of the mobility group, said his engineers are working on putting Wi-Fi and WiMax on the same radio chip, code-named Ofer, in three years."