1. Partners drive WiMax momentum across Asia.
- Author
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Wright, Maury
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IEEE 802.16 (Standard) , *STANDARDS , *TELECOMMUNICATION equipment , *ORIGINAL equipment manufacturers , *BUSINESS partnerships - Abstract
This article on a continued partnership between chip vendors in North America and Europe with system and telecommunication original equipment manufacturers (OEM) in Asia to deploy the WiMax wireless-broadband standard. Just recently, Bangalore, India-based OEM Tata Elxsi signed on with Texas Instruments (TI) in a mobile WiMax initiative. Meanwhile, Great Britain-based picoChip has found a Chinese partner for its WiMax silicon. The TI/Tata Elxsi partnerships hopes to provide telecom-equipment vendors with an accelerated path to mobile-WiMax-base-station development. Meanwhile, the latest partnership of picoChip is with Chinese telecom OEM China GrenTech.
- Published
- 2006