AMD may be about to introduce a hotspot program that offers to market hotspots for venues: The hotspots must be offered to end users for free and in return AMD will market the locations of the hotspots and offer special giveaways and discounts to end users. AMD hasn't officially launched the program so a lot of details aren't clear.
If this is true, it would appear to be an effort by AMD to put some marketing muscle behind its competition with Intel. While Intel leads the market in Wi-Fi chips built into laptops, AMD has a presence in the lower cost laptop market. During a recent trip to Best Buy, I found that most of the laptops in the lower price range had AMD processors. A hotspot program like the one described here would be AMD's take on Intel's program of placing signs in venues to mark hotspots except in AMD's case, the hotspots will be free for end users.