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August 11, 2004
Ultra Wideband By Christmas.
eWeek reports that Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has announced that they have approval from the FCC in the U.S. to manufacture Ultra Wideband chips, and will have them in devices by the end of the year. Given that the Australian Communications Authority self professes to watch and follow their U.S. counterpart, I’m sure they’ll allow the chips into Australia as quickly as they are made and shipped.
Ultra Wideband transmits data over a wide spectrum, but at low power rates, and hence only short distances of about 10 meters. Technologists are bleating that this will allow consumer electronics to transmit wirelessly, like Bluetooth, but at a much greater rate . 110 Mbps initially and up to 1 Gbps in the future, because of the larger bandwidth afforded by the wider spectrum, so transmitting video becomes an option. UWB will no doubt be used in set top boxes, DVD players, TVs, laptops, PDAs, Mobile Phones, etc. making Bluetooth obsolete. MacSlash speculate that this could be the hold up with the new iMacs, and may lead to wireless iPods next year.
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