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SAN MATEO, CALIF. - LinCom Wireless Inc. is the latest in a growing list of wireless chip vendors vying to deliver IEEE802.11a and 802.11b combo solutions later this year. "We will be one ofthe first companies" to supply a combined 802.11a and .11b chip set, promised Vince Hu, cofounder and president of the Los Angeles-based fabless semiconductor company.
LinCom is developing a chip set, called ComboLink, that includes both the 802.11a and .11b modems, media-access control (MAC) software and a dualband, direct-conversion RF IC.
Practically every startup with 802.11a plans is now promising to provide some kind of dualmode chip set, said Navin Sabharwal, vice president of residential and networking technologies at Allied Business Intelligence Inc. (Oyster Bay, N.Y.). But none will actually ship such a combo product until the third or fourth quarter, he added.
Those already developing dual solutions include Envara Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif); Resonext Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.); a partnership of Spirea AB (Kista, Sweden) and Embedded Wireless Devices Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif); and Systemonic. That startup, which originated at Dresden University in Germany, recently acquired...