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Broadcom has shipped its 100 millionth 54g chipset.
“802.11g is currently the most prevalent Wi-Fi technology because it offers the best price/performance ratio for consumers,” said Michael Hurlston, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Wireless LAN Business Unithttp://www.broadcom.com
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Broadcom. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
SiByte built MIPS-based network processors. What became of it?
SiByte brought MIPS-based network processors to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Broadcom for US$2B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Broadcom 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.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
