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Atmel cuts cost of WiMAX wireless comms

Atmel’s latest WiMAX transceiver is designed with component bill of materials in mind. This could prove significant as WiMAX bids to take on 3G mobile as the broadband wireless technology of choice. The transceiver operates at 3.5GHz with multiple bandwidth options addressing the requirements of WiMAX basestations and subscriber equipment. Internal configuration and control registers can be programmed to integrate with ...

How the World Semiconductor Council was Founded

Dr Tsugio Makimoto, former President of Hitachi Semiconductors and Senior Corporate Vice-President and CTO at Sony, the author of ‘Makimoto’s Wave’, tells an amusing yarn about how the World Semiconductor Council got established.