Intel pounds another nail in UWB's coffin

It's starting to look pretty tough for UWB -- WiQuest totally shut down yesterday, and now Intel's decided to abandon its UWB dev efforts. The company says that it'll be easier and cheaper to buy off-the-shelf UWB chips instead of continuing its own five-year-old engineering efforts, but those shelves aren't exactly overflowing, and the lack of enthusiasm for this tech in the marketplace suggests this trickle of bad news could turn into a flood -- we'll see how things shake out.

[Via Phonescoop]

[)ROFL( @ Nov 6th 2008 12:35AM]

> Death Inside

[KarlW @ Nov 6th 2008 12:43AM]

UWB is a signalling technology, not a platform in and of itself. Multiple platforms use UWB - Wireless USB, wall-penetrating radar...etc. Think of it like you think of RFID.

Just because they're not producing their own UWB chips, doesn't mean they're not going to continue to develop technologies like WUSB. Wireless USB is still a relatively new spec.

[AJ in the East Bay @ Nov 6th 2008 1:28AM]

So Intel is pretty much saying that UWB is a "bag of hurt."

[ah-palin @ Nov 6th 2008 1:50AM]

Ultra Wide Bag ...

[Justin @ Nov 6th 2008 8:50AM]

No, they're saying that manufacturing UWB chips isn't their bag....of hurt...