Intel will unveil a multi-company initiative to support a 480Mbit/s wireless USB technology over 10 meters based on UWB. Backers will includeDolby Labs and many of the companies currently supporting the wired USB 2.0specification, said an Intel spokesman. The wireless USB initiative and theIntel chip will be based on the multiband OFDM technology backed by an industryalliance that includes Intel. It will also be supported by the WiMedia Alliancethat is helping define UWB software interoperability. The wireless USB chips arenot expected to ship in products until 2005.
The Intel spokesman would not confirm or deny reports that the company willdemonstrate a 64-bit x86 at IDF. However, he did say "the subject will bebrokered," probably in the keynote address of Craig Barrett, Intel's chiefexecutive. Intel will also announce its first 90-nm communications processors atIDF with plans to apply the in-house technology across its portfolio of wiredand wireless parts. In total, Intel will make as many as 16 new announcements atIDF. Third parties are planning about a dozen more. Other news at IDF willinclude new tools to ensure interoperability of digital home products, new NORflash technology and the creation of a memory implementers' forum to addressissues with DDR II and a front-side bus in-line memory module.
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