Intel Communications Group

Rapidfire presentation from Intel -- sans PowerPoint (that got a round of applause). Intel has 1000 people working on WiFi. Radio will be free in the near future. WiFi will be on-par with cellphones in terms of its impact on infrastructure. We're going to kick ass at the FCC.

Radio will be free. We've got plenty of processing power. The next pentium will have 450MM transistors. The die-size for a radio is about 1/8th a Pentium. WiFi is down to $15 -- and headed down to single digits.

WiFi will kick cellphones' asses. Intel will ship 10s of millions of WiFi radios next year, and the industry will ship 100s of millions in the next year. Cellphone manufacturers want WiFi in their handsets. WiFi is growing faster than cellphones did in the early 90s. Manitoba is a new product -- a cellphone on a chip the size of your thumb with 1GHz processor.

We're going to the FCC. WiFi makes sense: when you lay fiber in the south, you have to pay $2K/house to replace the roses. Korea is way ahead in broadband, WiFi and cellular. We want the FCC to free up 5GHz spectrum and we want to build in radar-sensing (so that devices can shut themselves down rather than compete with radar). We want to build agile radios. Discuss