Atheros banking on Wilocity to help WiGig straddle Wi-Fi
The WiGig chip will be anything from "tricky" to "impossible" to build
Published: 16 July, 2010
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The full complement of WiGig backers includes Broadcom, Dell, Intel, LG Electronics, Marvell, MediaTek, Microsoft, NEC, Nokia, Nvidia, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba plus contributors Agilent, AMD, Beam Networks, NXP, Ralink Technology, Realtek, SK Telecom, STMicroelectronics, Tensorcom, Texas Instruments and TMC.
But there was just as powerful support (many of them the same companies) for the WiMedia Alliance and its technology just didn't work, underperforming to the extent that it achieved perhaps 15% of the spec, after five years of work, simply because some of the early technology decisions were just plain wrong. WiMedia was shooting for between 500 Mbps and 1 Gbps, and now this spec is aiming for a ten fold improvement (7Gbps). Which is perhaps why we expect more groupings such as this one, trying to pool resources and avoid WiMedia's fate.
No dates have been given for the emergence of a completed chip. Very wise, especially since Atheros also has plans to create unified components to switch between WiFi and powerline, relying on technology from its new subsidiary Intellon. It also has plans to create the same kind of backplane between existing MoCA coaxial technology and Wi-Fi creating a new kind of home mesh environment. Tough agenda.
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