On the 40th anniversary of Moore’s Law(see the CNET special section) the outlook in the semiconductor industry is that Moore’s Law is likely to hold true for at least another decade of chips. Moore’s Law is not a law of physics. However its prediction that transistor density doubles at a highly predictable rate, has […]

As an example of Intel’s evolving platform oriented strategy, (ushered in not long ago with the highly successful Centrino(tm) marketing campaign for PC laptop WiFi solutions), Intel announced April 18th their new WiMAX 5116 broadband interface chip (internally codenamed “Rosedale”). Included in the announcement were device and equipment manufacturers such as Airspan, Huawei, […]