{"id":1588,"date":"2003-06-25T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/wifi-consolidation\/"},"modified":"2003-06-25T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T22:26:07","slug":"wifi-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/wifi-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"WiFi consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo the consolidation is starting, according to <a title=\"Unstrung - The world wide source for analysis of the global wireless economy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unstrung.com\/document.asp?doc_id=35991\">rumors on the acquisition of Intersil by TI:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wireless LAN chipset vendor Intersil Corp.&#8217;s (Nasdaq: ISIL &#8211; message board) stock was up today on rumors that the company is going to be acquired by Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN &#8211; message board).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TI is renown as a great second-source manufacturer, if not a fabled engineer, so this deal would place three fab-owning manufacturers ahead of the pack to deliver WiFi chips, which is not good news for the smaller, fabless contenders whose product strategy is dictated by engineering managers.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the consolidation is starting, according to rumors on the acquisition of Intersil by TI: Wireless LAN chipset vendor Intersil Corp.&#8217;s (Nasdaq: ISIL &#8211; message board) stock was up today on rumors that the company is going to be acquired by Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN &#8211; message board). TI is renown as a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/wifi-consolidation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WiFi consolidation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}