IDF Spring 2004 Japan: mobile technologies loose

As you know, IDF Spring 2004 Japan started yesterday in Tokyo. Despite that some basics are usually introduced at the USA IDF session, some regional forums still gather lots of interesting exhibits, a number of which is described below.

Traditionally Japan strongly focuses on mobile technogies, but this time they paid much attention to wireless technologies, including 3G, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and UWB/Bluetooth. In particular, Intel introduced WiMAX roadmap and plans to implement its support into notebooks (similar to Wi-Fi) already by 2006.

As for the closest Centrino evolution, in particular, marking of Pentium M Dothan products, Pentium M Dothan will be introduced in May. products with 755, 745 and 735 ratings and 400MHz FSB are to be one of the first offered.

P.S. At Intel´s comm and wireless presentation, the company showcased a working prototype of a W-CDMA/UMTS communicator based on Hermon mobile processor with a video phone and IEEE 802.11g + Bluetooth.

Source: PC Watch

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