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Atheros Communications announced the shipment of its 500 millionth Wi-Fi chipset.
The company said this milestone reflects its ability to scale its operations to serve multiple high volume markets.
According to iSuppli, the wireless LAN (WLAN) semiconductor market quadrupled from 2003 to 2009 and will nearly triple again to reach $8.8 billion in 2014.
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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.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
