Intel: No more 3G HSDPA in Santa Rosa
Intel has suspended its plans to include 3G support in its Centrino platform. The next version of Centrino, code-named Santa Rosa, was to offer both Wi-Fi and a 3G enhancement called HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), Intel announced back in September.
Adding 3G support to Santa Rosa would have given mobile workers more choice when connecting wirelessly to the internet or their corporate network. But Intel told ZDNet UK on Friday that 3G would not be included in Santa Rosa, at least initially. The 3G element of Santa Rosa was to be manufactured by Nokia, but Intel would not say if it would continue 3G development with the company. Santa Rosa will be released in the second quarter of this year, and that Santa Rosa would include the higher-speed 802.11n Wi-Fi standard, which will offer users theoretical speeds in excess of 100Mbps (megabits per second). Intel has not yet announced any plans to add support for WiMax — the wide area wireless technology into which it has ploughed millions of pounds of investment — to Santa Rosa.
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