Detailed article on how GSM and Wi-Fi might find themselves together in future chips: It's a fairly technical article, but it does point out the difficulties and some of the opportunities in merging cell and Wi-Fi at the chip level instead of building devices with many chips. The bottom line appears to be that there's some cost and materials savings but only for the most compact and battery-sensitive devices. [via The Head Lemur]
Not at all in the distant future. HP is currently using TI wi-fi and Bluetooth design on its new H4150/H4350 iPaq series (http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=1625) and there are rumours of a HP wi-fi/Bluetooth/GPRS device in 1Q04. Since they already have experience with TI integration, what's next? Possibly using TI's Wanda design (link the same article)