Comments on: Beceem running away with mobile WiMax? Where’s Intel?

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Voting for MobileBeat2008 best companies begins » VentureBeat — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:12:21 +0000

[...] — a Silicon Valley company offering a next-generation mobile broadband chip for WiMax, being used by Motorola and also Intel. Bytemobile — provides mobile internet software and services for data networks operators, [...]

By: VentureBeat » Altair raises $18M for mobile WiMAX chips

VentureBeat » Altair raises $18M for mobile WiMAX chips — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:41:10 +0000

[...] leading the charge to develop reliable, power-efficient and smaller WiMAX chips. (VentureBeat recently wrote about Beceem, one of those [...]

By: VentureBeat Wire » Beceem raises $40M more for mobile WiMax offering

VentureBeat Wire » Beceem raises $40M more for mobile WiMax offering — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:13:41 +0000

[...] The promise of WiMax is that it ranges as far as 10 miles, while WiFi reaches only a few hundred feet. It’s challenge is that is just now being rolled out, and so it is untested in most of the world. Intel wants to use WiMax to allow someone to get wireless access on a laptop anywhere, and has backed Beceem’s efforts to jump straight to a mobile version of WiMax. See our story here on Beceem. [...]

By: RK

RK — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:09:22 +0000

BTW on Laptop with 10 miles range, this is like UTMS service Verizon offers today, I sure data rate would be better. Also ClearWire (Intel funded) is building out an nationwide ISP service using WiMAX, I know they some location in central valley running.

By: RK

RK — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:04:21 +0000

There are quiet few players working on mobile WiMax chipset. issue is who has the lowest power chipset ( few hundred Milli amp and lower) , and does it have the claimed data rate, and is there a Wirless Carrier who is willing to sign up for handsets.