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[Eric]

Mobile WLAN Chips with VOIP

>> Mobile WLAN Chips Debut

Patrick Mannion
EE Times
Mar 14, 2005

http://tinyurl.com/6djd8

Confident that voice-over-wireless LANs will drive WLAN chips into mobile handsets, Texas Instruments Inc. has announced what it calls the first single-chip 802.11a/b/g offering in a 90-nanometer CMOS process. Using the same Digital RF Processing technology that went into TI's single-chip GSM phone, the device integrates almost all of the radio functions and combines them with advanced voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) software and a "thick" media-access controller. .... <snip rest>

TI's Press Release here:

http://tinyurl.com/4xyyl

Availability:

The WiLink 4.0 mobile WLAN 802.11b/g and 802/11a/b/g solutions are expected to sample in 3Q 2005. Products integrating TI´s WiLink 4.0 platform are expected to be released to market in 2Q 2006.

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