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The next time you hop on a taxi during peak hours, imagine spending the next 45 minutes surfing the web on a built-in device instead of wasting precious time, that’s the kind of privilege the folks at Taipei, Taiwan are enjoying now thanks to WiMAX. VMAX Telecom, a Northern Taiwan WiMAX operator recently announced that from April onwards, 1,000 taxis in Taipei will be installed with touchscreen MIDs to provide high speed Internet access, web TV, local information, games and GPS services to passengers at no extra costs. The announcement was made at the launched of several new notebooks, all packed with the WiMAX embedded chips from Intel. Although we Malaysians on the other hand, are still relatively new when it comes to WiMAX, be pleased to know that Intel is working strongly with P1 to bring WiMAX embedded devices to Malaysia.

“WiMAX makes 4G wireless connectivity possible today. Intel congratulates VMAX on the deployment of its first commercial WiMAX service. We believe today’s announcement is an important milestone that will accelerate the availability of laptops and other mobile devices with in-built WiMAX in other markets around Asia Pacific and globally. We expect the momentum to continue in APAC throughout 2010 as WiMAX reaches mass market and additional laptops, netbooks and other mobile devices with built-in WiMAX come to the market.” -- Navin Shenoy, Vice President of Sales and Marketing Group and General Manager of Intel Asia Pacific.

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During the launch, Acer and Asus also announced their Intel Embedded WiMAX solutions, bringing the Acer Aspire 3810TG-732G64i and Asus UL30VT to the market respectively. They are the first two laptops with the Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 embedded solution featuring the Intel Core Solo Processor. The Aspire 3810TG-732G64i enables a thin and light system design, long battery life, and mobile connectivity while the Asus UL30VT is based on the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and the Asus Turbo 33 Technology allows a 33% CPU performance gain. 
Intel currently has several WiMAX products to provide for the world’s most cost effective embedded WiFi/WiMAX solutions. Because the WiMAX chip is the same as the current WiFi chip found in almost all notebooks, replacing it with a WiMAX enabled chip is easy because they can fit into the same socket. While there’s the Kilmer Peak to deliver integrated WiFi/WiMAX/Global 2.3/2.5/3.5 GHz SKU My WiFi & WiDi chip for notebooks and netbooks, Intel also have the Evans Peak, an integrated WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth and GPS solution for smartphones and MIDs.
If you think that the current WiMAX available for our country is not good enough, then you should be glad to know that currently, the Release 1 of WiMAX is 802:16e, and still have a huge room for improvement to come for the Release 2, the 802.16m, and Intel is playing a leading role in this evolution. The 802.16m is capable of deliver a download speed of up to 170Mpbs and an upload speed of 90Mbps. It will also be having a higher VoIP capacity, low air interface latency, mobility of over 350km/hour and will be scalable to 1.2Gbps. The commercial deployment of Release 2 will be expecting to start in 2012.