Alcatel and Intel say they've formed a strategic alliance to define, standardize, develop, integrate, and market WiMax solutions: They expect to start offering products the second half of 2005. Many of these goals (well except for the delivery of products) are the same goals of the WiMax Forum, which includes many more companies. It seems that this is an extremely convoluted way of saying that Alcatel plans to use Intel chips to build WiMax equipment.