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AMD to rival Intel's wireless chipset
by Guy Kewney | posted on 08 November 2002
Advanced Micro Devices said it plans to offer its own twist on the "Calexico" wireless chipset currently being developed by Intel. But the "twist" appears to be that it won't be able to match Santa Clara.
AMD's Alchemy division, a design firm with embedded and wireless expertise the company purchased earlier this year, said it is working on a Am1772 wireless LAN chipset and complementary min-PCI card, which the firm will sample this month and produce early next year.
For more details, see Extreme Tech's article of Nov 4th. Reporter Mark Hachman says that the competition is going to be modest at first, since Intel is going for all three WiFi family radios, 802.11 b/a/g while at this stage, AMD will do only 11b - the 11 megabit standard which abounds today.
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