80211Planet – News: Industry First 802.11g Chip Set Announced
Intersil Corporation today announced the industry’s first chip set designed to support the IEEE 802.11g draft standard. The Intersil PRISM GT chip set, operating in the 2.4 Ghz band, will enable data transmission speeds of up to 54 Mbps with backwards compatibility to 802.11b infrastructures. This news comes roughly two and a half months after the IEEE 802.11g Task Group finally agreed on terms for the hotly debated wireless standard.
Atheros is the company that bet their future on the inability of IEEE 802.11 to agree on a further development of WiFo into higher speeds and alternate spectra. They lost.