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Intel Boosts Cell Phone Chips, Touts WiMAX: Page 3 of 3

On the back end, Maloney said the broadband infrastructure will get a boost starting next year when WiMAX connectivity will be installed publicly for the first time. Plans call for antennas to be attached to radio and cell towers, providing data transmission into private homes and businesses. At the receiving end, the consumer would put "a simple antenna on the outside of their home" during the "indoor installation" phase of the process in the second half of 2005, Maloney said.

More efficient, better-performing mobile computing devices will be able to take advantage of the broadband transfer of digital media and increased amounts of data, he added. Intel executives have been suggesting increasingly for the past several months that the company's and the industry's business model will evolve into a greater, digitally converged network where high-definition content becomes the center.

"We think this is a big deal," Maloney said. "We think it's very good news for the industry."

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