It’s about time

The Register reports: Chipmaker Agere Systems today announced plans to integrate wireless LAN and VoIP technology on a single integrated chipset. Agere’s wireless VoIP phone technology offers the promise of making low-cost, mobile phone calls over the Internet more widely available once the chips become available from September. So once again, the bar gets raised … Continue reading “It’s about time”

The Register reports:

Chipmaker Agere Systems today announced plans to integrate wireless LAN and VoIP technology on a single integrated chipset.

Agere’s wireless VoIP phone technology offers the promise of making low-cost, mobile phone calls over the Internet more widely available once the chips become available from September.

So once again, the bar gets raised higher for WiFi chips, but this is an 802.11b-only chip, with no .a or .g support. So there’s the next opportunity.