Dadi Perlmutter Keynote

IDF 08-27-06 Afternoon session

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David Perlmutter: Okay, thank you very much, Craig, see you. Notebook without

wireless connectivity is not something that we would be happy

with. In the Web 2.0 era, when you want to be connected to the

one you like, whether it be a MySpace, YouTube, a Google

Maps, a Yahoo search, [finals], whatever, you want to be able to

access that any time you really need it. In order to do that,

you're going to need wireless connectivity. That's not a new

revelation. We are putting focus on wireless in two vectors. One,

increasingly significantly the speed of our Wi-Fi solution, but

also creating solutions which are expanding the way that you

can connect. So other than connecting in small places, you

really get networks that cover way larger, way bigger

geographies.

So first I want to touch on our [unintelligible] [802.11agn]

technology. This is supporting or compatible with 802.11

standard. It delivers 300 megabits per second. This is 5x than

what we had in the previous generation of 802.11g and close to

30x better than the first 802.11 we had on our Centrino platform

only in the middle of 2003. This is really based on 2x3 MIMO

technology, two transmitters, three receivers that we have that

really enhances the signal and does a lot of [wandering] digital

processing to really be able to transmit and receive these

wonderful rates. But we are not forgetting that this is a

notebook, so huge focus on form factor, but making this mini-

PCI Express card single-sided so we could make it denser, but

also continue to focus and being leading edge of Wi-Fi

technology as its predecessor was in power dissipation.