Intel's 'Huron River' 32nm laptop platform to pack WiMAX in 2011
By Paul Miller 
posted February 14th 2010 2:44AM
posted February 14th 2010 2:44AM
posted February 14th 2010 2:44AM
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Granted I am typing this less than 10 feet away from my Clear WiMAX modem but I thought that LTE had pretty much been decided as the next 4G standard with even Clear, the largest deployer of WiMAX pretty ambivalent about the future of WiMAX.
@johnm
Precisely. Centrino pushed WiFi but that didn't have competitors and you could install it at home. For most of us this will be a useless feature that just adds a few dollars to the price.
Wimax is basically Intel's technology but surely they should see by now that they need to start on LTE if they want to be relevant in the mobile sector like they are in WLAN.
@Mustafa
WiMAX will coexist with LTE, after all its a low cost alternative to LTE and there is already many networks in place. And Intel can get the technology they need for LTE from Nokia, just in the same way as they get 3G today.
These spaces get more and more futuristic
Im just waiting to see the brainiac chamber like in superman...
WiMax, Bluetooth (3.0/4?), and WiDi on top of a new chipset and processor.
I guess it doesn't matter what I buy this year...
I can't imagine very many people will care about WiMax. You've got your mobile phone if you want to pay the monthly fee for internet access. There are those that want a mobile laptop and are willing to pay for it. But the size of the market cannot be big enough for it to make it worthwhile to include it in a chipset like this.
Perhaps if WiMax fees were low enough?
How much for the suit? It looks comfortable enough to sleep in.
Be careful with those cracks about apple Paul Miller! Toplotskii just might disable all posts by editors and turn engadget into a forum with only comments!
But wait! Isn't preaching a single perspective the description of a *advertiser* as opposed to a *blog dialoging with the public*? This must mean that Engadget actually became internally consistent when comments were disabled! I see it all!
Thing is--Toplotskii only knows how to deal with this kind of epiphany by swinging around his Ban-hammer while grunting angrily, or pointing to all those terrible times he felt so threatened when the big bad commenters we're making their completely valid points.
Don't let engadget forget this people.
@MM OBVIOUS yo man I'm no expert or anything, but I don't think that's his name, I think it's different.
@Chuuchdizzle I want you to look really really carefully above your insightful little quip. You'll see something that may surprise you. Yes, it's a fake name you created for some other purpose that isn't your real name! Calm down. Ease into the shock by reading about common linguistic practices in American vernacular.
@MM OBVIOUS You obviously did not read most of the comments after the iPad release. Every single article turned into a flame war about why it sucked or didn't. Apparantly, if you have a semi-valid point, it doesn't matter if it is hidden under a torrent of obscenities. Some debate is good, but the point it got to was ridiculous.
I never knew Intel has a factory in space.
@(Unverified) True story.. They manufacture it on the moon and send it back to earth.. Recently there was a documentry on it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/
of course. when i saw that photo, this line just popped in there:
open the pod bay doors HAL.
Huron river? Sounds like someone fucking LOVES spirited away
@jazir5
I was thinking it might have something to do with the University of Michigan. The Huron river runs right through Ann Arbor.
Intel is gonna be irrelevant in 4 years as ARM takes over. They'll still be in laptops, thanks to Windows but they won't be making a lot of money.
Intel had seriously be working on low power SoC (system on chip) chips that can rival those of Qualcomm and others. I don't see it happening though, because Intel doesn't know how to make a halfway decent graphics chip .. let alone a low power chip. Case and point .. the N450 .. a "integrated graphics" LAPTOP chip whose graphics are beaten easily by ARM Mali which is for phones and consumes far less power. They can't even produce a laptop level chip that can decode 1080p HD Video without stuttering (ARM Mali can do it without breaking a sweat).
@Axitaxiwaxi 100% agree that Intel should work in a ultra-low power SoC. also i believe that Intel can go to 25nm tech by 2011 easily, but they are sluggish now as there is no real competition in the x86 CPU's.
@Ahmed Alzayani
They are going to 25nm in Q4-2011 / q1 2012.
@Axitaxiwaxi
ARM taking over Desktop market as a main CPU supplier?? Yeah.. oooook buddy... what ever helps you sleep at night.
@Axitaxiwaxi
only segment arm could/would dominate is netbook(or smartbook) segment. I doubt any arm chip will come close to my 2 year old core 2 duo T9300 forget about core i7. so intel's main market will remain x86 servers/workstations/desktop/laptop which are fairly high margin products.
intel is crippling atom platform as they dont want it to affect their laptop sales. if and when arm is a serious competitor they will stop crippling the platform or exit the market if it is not too profitable.
but i doubt intel would cease to be relevant in the near future as long as they have design/process lead.
@shawman
Even Atom will be dead soon. CULVs are CLEARLY better and will remove the need for the Atom based processors.
Unless Atom goes to -5 W power envelope.
I only really read articles, I don't do much exploration of the website other than that. So if you already have this, sorry...
With all this crazy new technology coming out, just came out, etc. Perhaps Engadget could do some type of monthly (bimonthly) thing with categories. IE: Best Mobile Phone, Most Advanced Laptop, Most Thin Laptop, Best HDTV, Best Android App, etc.?
I think they do. They do a weekly round-up, and if you use an RSS reader to read their content off-line you can filter to just read the daily round-ups. works like a charmer when i take my netbook for a lunch instead of lugging my 3G which also drains precious battery etc.
I smell Nokia Intel love here.
This is just kind of thing Nokia and Intel ahve been talking with the Nokia know how example with antennas and in WiFi, WIMAX and LTE.
If I had to wear one of those suits at work, I would request one in orange.
And bring my crowbar.
@p0p0 ...they do come in orange...for the copper techs...crowbar not included
I can tell you right now, I'm NOT excited about anything Intel is working on or is releasing. It seems really uninteresting.
Does this pic remind anyone else of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
@DariusRoberti:
Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
This perplexes me. Not because of the technology, but because of the name: Huron River.
I hail from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Huron River runs through there. It's not a particularly mighty river, it's nice to canoe on and all, but it doesn't evoke images of super fast bus speeds and Wimax or anything. I guess I'm a little honored that Intel would choose a river that runs through my hometown for a chipset, but the logic confuses me a little bit.
@Vwampage
Hahaha I know who you are, good sir. I did not know you read Engadget.
And yes, it is a nice river! Good for canoeing.
@Badgerman
Righto, I while I suspect that I know you as well, it is unclear who you are by screen name alone...
Any hints? Or might another communications medium be a good idea?
@Vwampage My thoughts exactly. I wonder how they thought to name it Huron River. I know a few UM alums work at Intel.
@Vwampage : The internal code names are semi-randomly chosen from public geographical features, since they can be depended on to not infringe on any trademarks without much spending much effort searching. Sometimes there is a bit of categorization matching type for product to type of geographic feature. This was more prevalent in the past, e.g. IA64 were named for mountain peaks, IA32 were named for flowing bodies of water, mobile platforms were named after valleys.
I doubt there is any particular connection between this product and UMich.
ouch well let apple take its time looks like Intel's moving forward
Where did you get that picture? That's a 200mm fab...All 32nm products are made in 300mm (12inch wafers) fabs.