Huawei and Intel Launch New WiMAX IOT Lab in Beijing

Chinese telecommunications infrastructure company, Huawei Technologies has teamed up with Intel Corporation to launch a new WiMAX Interoperability Testing (IOT) laboratory in Beijing.


With this new lab, both the companies symbolize another milestone in the ongoing effort to enhance the speed of interoperability and delivery of commercial-ready WiMAX devices throughout the global WiMAX industry. Both the companies first signed an agreement in April 2005 to cooperate in the development WiMAX technology and market development.

Officials at Huawei say that the company is dedicated to achieve WiMAX product compatibility through considerable R&D investment, in-house testing with multiple vendors. Huawei has been involved in WiMAX research since 2001 and now has more than 2,000 engineers engaged in WiMAX R&D.

Zhao Ming, president of Huawei CDMA and WiMAX Product Line said that they were delighted to play an active role in the development of WiMAX with Intel through its partnership. He said that this state-of-the-art test laboratory in Beijing will further advance WiMAX technology.

He concluded saying, "The systematic and rigorous testing in our new Beijing test lab will accelerate the development of WiMAX market segments for worldwide operators."

Back in 2007, many company initiated Wimax IOT to ensure that mobile WiMAX wireless products work well together and with other products globally, Intel Corp.,Nokia ( News - Alert) and Nokia Siemens Networks announced they are testing interoperability across Intel's WiMAX silicon for laptops and mobile Internet devices, Nokia WiMAX devices andNokia Siemens Networks ( News - Alert) WiMAX infrastructure equipment.

Sriram Viswanathan, vice president of Intel Capital (News - Alert) and general manager of Intel's WiMAX program office said, "Intel is dedicated to providing market-ready, fully-tested and interoperable WiMAX-enabled devices. We applaud Huawei's leadership in helping to continue to advance the global WiMAX industry."

According to a recent report, more than 50 Mobile WiMAX Certified products achieved certification in 2008. Currently, more than 35WiMAX Forum ( News - Alert) member companies manufacture WiMAX base stations, 30 companies provide PC Cards, USB modems, MIDs, and other personal devices, 25 companies produce chipsets and reference designs, and six of the top seven global device manufacturers develop WiMAX products.

The WiMAX Forum estimates that by 2011 there will be more than 1,000 Mobile WiMAX Forum Certified products found throughout the world.

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Intel 440BX ATX MBD

Intel's N440BX dual-CPU server board offers business users the performance of the ultra-fast 450MHz Pentium II processor. These processors require the board's 82440BX chipset, which supports their 100MHz system bus speed--an increase of 50% over the older system bus speed of 66MHz. Upgrading to an 82440BX system isn't just a matter of utilizing faster CPU's; data flow is sped up between the processor and each component in the system.

The N440BX board contains four 168-pin gold-plated SDRAM DIMM sockets which support up to 512MB unbuffered or 1GB registered PC/100 100MHz SDRAM. Accepted memory module sizes are 32MB, 64MB, 128MB and 256MB (registered). Either 72-bit ECC or 64-bit non-ECC 3.3v memory is supported. Five expansion slots are available on the board: three dedicated PCI slots, one dedicated ISA slot, and one PCI/ISA shared slot. The Intel PCI/ISA/IDE Xcelerator (PIIX4E) supports up to four IDE devices, DMA controllers, two fast IDE interfaces, a multi-function PCI-to-ISA bridge, power management logic, and a real-time clock. The National Semiconductor Super I/O controller integrates the standard I/O functions such as floppy drive interface, two Asynch serial ports, and keyboard and mouse controllers. Many important server components are integrated onto the board, including Intel's EtherExpress Pro+ 10/100MB network adapter, a Symbios Logic Dual Channel 40 MB/sec Ultra-Wide SCSI controller, and a Cirrus Logic graphics controller with 2MB of SGRAM. The N440BX motherboard has a Server-AT form factor, measuring 12in. x 13in., and fits in most ATX 2.0 compliant tower chassis.



Product Specification: Intel 440BX ATX MBD
Motherboard Type: Desktop
Package Quantity: 1
System Type: PC
Chipset: Intel 440BX
Form Factor: Baby AT
Data Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Compatible Processors: Pentium II, Pentium III
Processor Socket: Slot 1
Maximum Processors Supported: 2
Maximum Processor Speed: 500 MHz
Maximum Supported RAM Size: 1 GB
RAM Technology: SDRAM

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Intel cuts processor prices upto 48%

The world’s biggest maker of semiconductors is facing slumping demand and mounting competition from AMD, which has introduced lower-cost chips.
January 20, 2009
Intel Corp., the world’s biggest maker of semiconductors, cut the price of some processors by as much as 48% as it confronts slumping demand and new lower-cost chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
The price of the Celeron 570 processor, designed for laptops, dropped 48% to $70, Intel said Monday. One of the company’s quad-core desktop-computer models, which have four processors on one piece of silicon, dropped 40% to $316. Intel kept the price of its three most expensive desktop chips unchanged.
The shrinking economy is crimping personal-computer orders, creating a glut of processors. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, mired in its worst slowdown since 2001, also faces mounting competition from AMD, which introduced chips this month at half the price of comparable Intel products. Still, the price cuts aren’t a reaction to that, Intel said.
“These changes are part of our regularly scheduled price moves,” spokesman George Alfs said. “Intel has been bringing higher and higher performance to a range of price points over many years.”
AMD’s two new Phenom II processors, unveiled Jan. 8, are the highest-performing products ever produced by the Sunnyvale, Calif., company. Outfitted with more memory and four processors, the chips sell for $235 and $275.
Intel also announced new chips Monday for “massive-compute” jobs. Those products, which have four processing cores, are designed to enable desktop computers to handle heavy-duty data crunching.