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WiFi is us
The world’s largest chip makers have been rolling up their sleeves ahead of the approval of advanced wireless standard 802.11n. Tsutomu Tsuboi of Japanese chip giant Renesas came Israel in search of a trump card. He found it in Israeli company Metalink.

Shmuel Shelah 4 May 06 15:44

The battles at the conferences of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc , are among the most well known in the technology world. Despite this, the battle last year over the new 802.11n standard for wireless communications set new records.
The argument during 2005 was between two groups comprising representatives from IT and telecommunications giants, who had differing ideas as to how exactly the standard should work. Although the differences between the two sides were comparatively small, the battle raged on for more than six months with each side failing to “throw out” the proposal of the other.

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