A Company Looks to Wean Computers Off the Wires - New York Times: "But Greg Raleigh, chief executive of Airgo Networks in Palo Alto, Calif., said his four-year-old company, which released two earlier generations of high-speed wireless technologies, had 'broken the wire speed barrier' with its latest chips and embedded software. Mr. Raleigh said that the first products using Airgo's new chips - notebook computers, wireless cards, routers and other peripherals - should be commercially available late in the fourth quarter of this year.
'Basically, this changes everything by removing the reason to stay wired,' Mr. Raleigh said of his company's technologies, called third-generation True MIMO. He said that Airgo had production orders from a number of partners. In the past, companies including Belkin, Netgear, Sohoware and Samsung have used Airgo's wireless technologies.
He said that Airgo's latest iteration of True MIMO, an acronym for Multiple Input Multiple Output that appears on product labels using it, operates at as much as 240 megabits a second, easily surpassing standard Wi-Fi rates of as much as 54 megabits a second. Mr. Raleigh said the technology also outperformed wired Ethernet networks, which generally move data at as much as 100 megabits a second."