SIEMENS and other mobile phone manufacturers will blitz Intel WiMAX chip

Mobile phone manufacturers in the 3G, now support the development of WiMAX technology mobile phone products. Siemens SIEMENS and other mobile phone manufacturers, said they will be the first batch of WiMAX mobile phone products using Intel chip WiMAX.

Intel to the WiMAX chip of mobile phone manufacturers, codenamed Rosedale2, support 802.16e wireless transmission specifications. Intel has previously developed a WiMAX chip named Rosedale, to be used in notebook computer, but for reasons of product planning, computer with WiMAX Intel was postponed to the next generation of Centrino platform.

Intel said, compared to the next generation of Centrino WiMAX, Intel will be the first in a portable device which extended Rosedale2 chip to support 802.16e. Intel said it will use Rosedale2 chip mobile phone manufacturers have more than 10, including Alcatel, SIEMENS, Proxim, SR Telecom, etc..

Intel, Rosedale2 and Rosedale generation compatible mobile phone manufacturers, through a software upgrade, you can make the equipment from generation Rosedale upgrade to Rosedale2. Rosedale2 chip will start mass production at the end of the year, mobile phone manufacturers WiMAX mobile phone through WiMAX alliance certification in 2007, listed in large quantities, analysts believe that the huge market of WiMAX mobile phone is mainly in the Asian region.