The writing is on the wall for WiFi chip suppliers. The WLAN market may be about to boom, but the main beneficiaries of the boom look like being Cisco and Intel - so Intersil has sold off its Prism line of chips to someone who thinks they can out-think those two giants.
Via [theregister.co.uk]
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Intersil Corp. today laid claim to the first two-chip, dual-band wireless LAN chipset for 802.11a, b and g.
Via [reed-electronics.com]
Intersil is working to add wireless networking to handheld devices.
Via [news.com.com]
Intersil Corporation today announced the industry’s first chip set designed to support the IEEE 802.11g draft standard. The Intersil PRISM GT chip set, operating in the 2.4 Ghz band, will enable data transmission speeds of up to 54 Mbps with backwards compatibility to 802.11b infrastructures. This news comes roughly two and a half months after the IEEE 802.11g Task Group finally agreed on terms for the hotly debated wireless standard.
Via [wi-fiplanet.com]