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| | Intel's Centrino Strikes Blow at WLAN Firms |
 | | The WLAN industry is buzzing with talk about Intel's Centrino technologies, which are flagging the company's intent to become a leader in mobile and wireless technologies, which will be key technologies for the Internet, multimedia, and high-speed networking. |
 | | WLAN chipset manufacturers such as Intersil or Agere and WLAN card producers including Netgear, 3COM, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Acrowave and MMCTechnology are directly affected by Intel's Centrino strategy. |
 | | Although Intel is competing with major processor companies like Advanced Micro Computers (AMD) and Transmeta in the notebook space, it is powerful enough to impact the fortunes of WLAN card makers: Intel has offered large subsidies to notebook manufacturers and is using these subsidies as a means of advancing into the wireless area. |
| www.eweek.com /article2/0,4149,1240253,00.asp (1457 words) |
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