Originally published June 28 2005
Intel one step closer to developing chip that would allow phones to roam around the world
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Intel Corporation recently announced its researchers had developed a prototype chip that combines a radio, a power amplifier and other components that can interpret a variety of wireless signals, and could eventually allow phones to roam across different networks around the world, Mercury News reports.
Intel said its researchers have taken a step toward creating a chip that can handle a variety of wireless signals.
The prototype chip is part of the quest to create phones that could roam across different types of networks in any part of the world.
Manny Vara, an Intel technology strategist, said researchers developed a prototype chip that combines a radio, a power amplifier and other components, a feat that makes it easier to reduce the size and costs of wireless chips.
The research was presented at a technical conference Thursday in Kyoto, Japan.
Such a chip might eventually be useful in creating a cell phone that allows someone to roam across networks in any part of the world.
It might handle signals as varied as long-range WiMax wireless Internet signals, shorter-range WiFi, Bluetooth signals for transferring data about 30 feet and cell phone signals at the same time.
If one network becomes clogged with traffic, the phone could automatically switch to one that is open.
``We want to create radios where you only have one chip that is reconfigurable,'' Vara said.
``You as a user wouldn't have to do anything to switch networks.
But the chip that Intel described is far from that goal, and the company has no plans to commercialize it soon.
``It is an evolutionary development, not a revolutionary one,'' said Sam Lucero, an analyst at In-Stat, a market researcher in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Will Strauss, an analyst at market research firm Forward Concepts, said Intel rivals such as Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Freescale and others are working on reconfigurable radios.
``Every chip company on Earth is working on this,'' said Strauss.
``But you can't do it with the kinds of chip designs that we have today.
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