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Atheros Communications’ 802.11g wireless-system-on-a-chip (WiSOC) chipset is being used for Microsoft’s new Xbox Wireless Adapter. The Xbox Wireless Adapter began shipping in the U.S. and Canada this month at an estimated U.S. retail price of $139.
Separately, Atheros announced it has shipped its 10-millionth wireless chip. The company shipped its first WLAN chip in September 2001.
http://www.atheros.com
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Microsoft. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Affirmed Networks built Virtualized and cloud-native mobile core. What became of it?
Affirmed Networks brought Virtualized and cloud-native mobile core to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Microsoft for US$1.35B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Microsoft today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about Wi-Fi. Here is what it replaced:
Wireless USB (UWB) served 2005–2010. What ultimately replaced it?
Wireless USB (UWB) carried USB over ultrawideband radio (3.1-10.6 GHz) at short range, spreading signals across a huge bandwidth at low power for cable-free peripherals. Its job passed to Wi-Fi — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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