Motorola fights on in ultrawideband battle
News The fight over the ultrawideband (UWB) wireless data standard has been going on for nearly a year, between the group headed by Intel and Texas Instruments - the Multiband OFDM Alliance, or MBOA -- and that by Motorola, which favours Direct...
[March 5, 2004, 9:10]
Standards wrangle threatens Ultrawideband
News Ultrawideband's (UWB) chances of becoming a mass-market wireless connectivity product will be hamstrung unless the IT industry can quickly agree on standards for the technology, analysts are warning. UWB is expected to take a major role within the...
[September 26, 2003, 14:15]
Ultrawideband standards war brewing, says Intel
News A key meeting for the standardisation of ultrawideband (UWB) radio has failed to break the industry deadlock, leaving the majority group committed to developing their standard even without IEEE approval.
[November 13, 2003, 10:45]
UWB chips debut with gigabit wireless in sight
News Motorola's semiconductor division, Freescale, has announced availability of its first ultrawideband (UWB) wireless chipsets, with parts to be available to manufacturers by the end of June and consumer products expected by the end of 2004.
[June 7, 2004, 15:45]
Design of a Multiband OFDM System for Realistic UWB Channel Environments
White Papers There are many differences between real-world behavior of narrow-band and UWB systems. All wireless systems must be able to deal with the challenges of operating over a multipath propagation channel, where objects in the environment can cause...
[July 25, 2007, 3:36]
Ultrawideband tribes square up for standards fight
News The next generation of ultra-fast wireless networking is taking shape, but not without a fight. Texas Instruments, one of the leading chipmakers with relevant expertise, has joined the Intel-led Multiband Consortium, which now calls itself the...
[July 15, 2003, 11:58]
Intel outlines its ultrawideband position
News Ultrawideband, one of today's most exciting areas of communications, may be in deep trouble due to that perennial problem for any emerging technology -- vendors squabbling over standards. This high-speed, low-power method of wireless connectivity...
[November 13, 2003, 11:25]
Ultrawideband standards split deepens
News Hopes are fading that the next generation of wireless networking, based on ultrawideband (UWB) technology, will be based on a single standard. The major special interest group, the Multiband-OFDM Alliance or MBOA, has already effectively abandoned...
[March 17, 2004, 13:30]
New chipset promises gigabit broadband on cable and wireless
News A chipset that can simultaneously support gigabit wireless, gigabit cable access and 200-megabit networking over power lines has been announced by Pulse~LINK. The US company said that it has received first test silicon for the design, with...
[May 11, 2004, 15:20]
Samsung does ultrawideband deal
News Samsung and chipmaker Staccato Communications are scheduled to announce plans on Tuesday to develop commercially available products using ultrawideband, a wireless rival to Bluetooth. The two companies claim the partnership is the "first commercial...
[August 12, 2003, 11:00]
UWB standards rivals offer royalty-free technology
News The battle between technology heavyweights over whose proposal will become a new short-range, high-speed wireless standard has heated up again, with one side now promising to offer its technology royalty-free to other companies.
[October 29, 2003, 16:05]
Coalitions form for new wireless war
News The wireless industry is just about to launch the 802.11n high-speed network standardisation process, but some participants are already anticipating an ugly fight. With over 500 interested parties and more than 60 proposals tabled, according to...
[July 6, 2004, 17:30]
Ultrawideband: The latest chipset unveiled
News Californian company Pulse~LINK has been developing ultrawideband systems for four years, and has recently closed a $30m venture capital funding deal. It has just announced a new chipset that will add gigabit networking to cable modems and can also...
[May 11, 2004, 15:40]
IDF: Ultra-fast wireless could be 'third-generation Bluetooth'
News Practical ultrawideband wireless is getting closer, according to new details released at the Intel Developer Forum this week. A new radio technology potentially capable of hundreds of megabits per second data transfer, UWB has been attracting...
[September 12, 2002, 9:13]
Ultrawideband gets on the television
News Some of the first Ultrawideband (UWB) enabled consumer electronic devices were demonstrated on Tuesday at the Freescale Technology forum in Orlando, Florida. A 37-inch high definition television from Chinese company Haier was shown using an...
[June 22, 2005, 16:05]
Intel rounds off IDF with news of wireless and 3D
News Intel finished off IDF with a short burst of news updates from around the company. First up was 3D Industry Forum news. Intel started this forum in 2003 with a focus on the computer-aided design market, currently the largest user of 3D.
[September 10, 2004, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 12/03/2004 It is, says Intel's happy press release, Centrino's first birthday! Congratulations, and isn't it growing up so quickly? The precocious mobile technology has been spotted everywhere, from petrol stations in Norway to the crater of...
[March 12, 2004, 16:45]
