WiMax Chips, Gettin’ Cheap
News is out today about the pricing of Intel’s Echo Peak combined Wi-Fi/WiMax silicon, at $43-$54 per chip, according to Digitimes. Good news if you are building a WiMax device, since prices should only go down from there.
In terms of finding out who might be shipping such devices, it looks like we will now have to wait until the CTIA show in Vegas in a couple weeks until we hear more about WiMax devices and Sprint’s Xohm launch plans. Sprint VP Ben Vos was here at the VON.x show in San Jose this week, but aside from a few statements about how WiMax will be used, all he would say about Xohm is “stay tuned.”
