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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Online

Atheros Wireless N For Phones Uses Less Power Than Slowass G

2:36AM Matt Buchanan | Wireless N in mobile phones — it’s happening next year: Atheros’s AR6003 802.11n/Bluetooth chip for mobile phones is tiny, has serious range and uses less power than their current wireless G chip, which is in the Zune HD. It’ll hit phones around the second half of next year. Such a long wait. [PC Mag]
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Networks

New Wi-Fi Chips from Atheros Use Little to No Power

5:30AM Matt Buchanan | Atheros’s new AR6002 line of Wi-Fi chippies sip juice ever so slightly in both standby or active states—almost nothing in the former, and over 200GB worth of downloadage could be powered by a 3.7-volt battery—allowing even the most power-ticky devices to get in on the Wi-Fi goodness. They’ll start shipping in Q1 2008, meaning useless Wi-Fi could be the new useless USB in just a few short months. Or, more practically, you could download a lot more porn leeching from your local coffee shop’s Wi-Fi before your battery keels over on you. Oh, and it’d be a boon for the battery life of Wi-Fi-equipped smartphones, media players, etc. [Dean Takahashi] More »
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