All In One: WLAN, GPS, Bluetooth and FM
You thought that these guys could never be together in one single place? You were wrong. Texas Instrument developed WiLink 7.0, a microchip that includes the possibilities to receive and transmit WLAN 802.11n, GPS, Bluetooth and FM.
This chip (65nm) seems like the perfect solution for notebooks, netbooks, cellphones and any other device that is intended to contain any of these features. The simplicity that can bring to these devices can be represented in numbers:
- 30% less in production costs.
- 50% space saving, considering that you will need separate chips for each technology.
- Includes internal mechanisms that will prevent for the FM, or any other transmission, to be interfered by other hardware.
- Includes Bluetooth Low-Energy support.
The product will be presented in the Mobile World Congress 2010 (Barcelona, Spain). And the company will have OEM devices built with this chip.
They are expecting to have implemented this chip in some market hardware by the end of the year.
