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Intel builds Wi-Fi into new Atom-based chips
Intel has combined a Wi-Fi transceiver with a dual-core Atom processor, opening up the possibility of slimmer mobile devices with longer battery life.The company plans to present its new chip, codenamed Rosepoint at ISSCC 2012 in San Francisco later this week.With fewer separate chips, mobile devices like phones, tablets and laptops could be slimmer, less battery-intensive and even cheaper.Radio components like Wi-Fi chips are especially difficult to miniaturise as they're usually based upon complex analogue circuitry.Intel has managed to buck this trend by producing a digital Radio Frequency (RF) which...
Published By: Tech Radar - Monday, 20 February
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