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Intel Capital invests in WiMAX backhaul

June 25, 2008, SANTA CLARA (WiMAX Day). BridgeWave Communications announced that it has received an investment of USD 10 million in a Series 4 round of funding led by Intel Capital and Core Capital. The chip-maker joins original ... continue...

Intel announces WiMAX lab in Saudi Arabia

June 20, 2008, RIYADH (WiMAX Day). Intel Corporation and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia have announced an agreement to launch a research and development facility. The facility will be hosted by KACST ... continue...

More products certified for mobile WiMAX

June 17, 2008, AMSTERDAM (WiMAX Day). At the WIMAX Forum Global Congress in Amsterdam, several companies have announced this week that their products have been certified for mobile WiMAX operating at 2.5 GHz. Airspan Networks has received WiMAX Forum ... continue...

Comstar and Intel push the WiMAX agenda in Russia

June 5, 2008, MOSCOW (WiMAX Day). Intel chairman Craig Barrett is in Russia this week to support Intel's work with Comstar-UTS to launch a WiMAX network. At a press conference in Novosibirsk, Barrett said the network will be ... continue...

Fujitsu forecasts $1 billion in sales of WiMAX chips

June 4, 2008, TAIPEI (WiMAX Day). A report in Reuters said that the Japanese company Fujitsu estimates that it will have sales of WiMAX chips of nearly USD 1 billion by April 2011. According to Makoto Awaga, general ... continue...

Compal and Wavesat to co-develop mobile WiMAX products

June 3, 2008, TAIPEI (WiMAX Day). The semiconductor designer Wavesat announced today that Compal Communications will co-develop mobile WiMAX products with Wavesat. Based on Wavesat's multimode Odyssey 8500 4G chipset, the first product will be a USB dongle.  ... continue...

WiMAX will enable mobile Web 2.0

June 3, 2008, TAIPEI (WIMAX DAY). At the Computex technology trade show yesterday, Intel executive Sean Maloney said that "the convergence of mobile computers, WiMAX wireless broadband, and powerful, HD-rich computer technologies point to a tremendous growth opportunity." Maloney ... continue...

eAccess joins the whimpering coven of WiMAX turncoats

May 22, 2008, TOKYO (WiMAX Day). Last year, the Japanese company eAccess fought feverishly to obtain a license for WiMAX spectrum. As a founding shareholder in the OpenWin consortium with Softbank and Goldman Sachs, eAccess planned to build ... continue...
 

WiMAX Chipset Stocks

Fujitsu Ltd Adr38.86   +0.00
Freescale Semicon39.99   +0.00
Infineon Tech Ads7.25   +0.00
Intel Cp20.92   +0.00
Nextwave Wireless3.50   +0.00
Nipny0.00   +0.00
Pmc-sierra Inc7.42   +0.00
Samsung Sp.gdr-14285.75   -0.25

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