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eWeek reports that Intel’s new desktop CPU system won’t have Wi-Fi at launch: Intel had been talking up its “Grantsdale” chipset’s ability to act as a Wi-Fi software access point for months, but now won’t be able to include Wi-Fi at all in the shipping version. They expect to provide a separate PCI card late in the year to enable Wi-Fi and this function. The idea that purchasers of a desktop system will have to return to the trough and then install an internal PCI card is, of course, ludicrous for most consumers—including business IT professionals who don’t want to buy a system that lacks a critical function.
Intel’s gap leaves the door wide open for competitors like Broadcom, which already ate Intel’s lunch on the laptop side, and has been a serious provider of integrated modules that include gigabit Ethernet, a 56K modem, and 802.11g Wi-Fi. Will Dell and others who turned to Broadcom for laptop Wi-Fi turn to them for the desktop version, too? At least there will be a flurry of competition among the several chipmakers who can supply the market.
This delay is another major stumble for Intel, which came late to the Wi-Fi party with Centrino, shipping 802.11b-only radios a year ago spring with that laptop system, after having promised 802.11a options. Then, with 802.11a, and a/g radios scheduled for 2003, was unable to provide them. At this writing, the Centrino successor Dothan still hasn’t appeared on the market in a big way, with manufacturers shipping their first models based on it just this week with 802.11g only.
Posted by Glennf at June 18, 2004 6:47 AM
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Wi-Fi Networking News: Intel Stumbles on Wi-Fi Again, with Grantsdale eWeek reports that Intel’s new desktop CPU system won’t have Wi-Fi at launch: Intel had been talking up its “Grantsdale” chipset’s ability to act as a Wi-Fi software access point for... [Read More]
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