Dadi Perlmutter Keynote

IDF 08-27-06 Afternoon session
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Since this is a standard in the [world], we want to make sure
that we ensure interoperability with as many access points we
could have. Because one of our big Centrino promises that you
go out there and can make a connection. We are supplementing
the Wi-Fi [alliance], interoperability testing with additional what
we call real-world testing. This is taking our stuff outside and
checking with our leading access point manufacturers, partners,
like Buffalo, [Billing]. LinkSys, and NETview. This is crucially
important because this robust testing program is what it's all
about to make sure that we can allow interoperability across
wide ranges of access points.
But going faster is one angle. We need to go broader. And my
friend Sean Maloney usually says that Wi-Fi is like a pepperoni
on the pizza; it adds a wonderful taste but doesn’t cover the
whole thing and you need to have also the cheese to cover the
other spaces.
We're happy to announce today the partnership with Nokia to
deliver an integrated wireless card that's going to be inside our
Santa Rosa platform, that's really going to rely on Nokia's
HSDPA wideband CDMA technology to deliver wireless WAN
solution to our platforms. This is [Gatesoft; this is going to
increase in our mind the attach rate] of third-generation
technology into notebooks. So I call Craig again to really show
us the goodness of wireless.