HP Will Also Offer Draft n Notebooks

Written by Adam Gosling

Friday, 10 November 2006

Following on from the announcement that Broadcom will supply 802.11 Draft N chipsets and drivers for the Lenovo range of laptops, the company has revealed that HP is set to announce it too is a customer. This will bring Broadcom's Intensi-Fi customer list to four with Acer, Dell, Lenovo and Hewlett Packard all planning to use Broadcom to deliver Draft N spec wireless connectivity in forthcoming laptops. Although Hewlett-Packard has not officially announced a Draft N laptop, Mike Hurlston, vice president of Broadcom, let the cat out of the bag saying: "we have the green light to say HP will be the fourth [customer for Draft N]." Hrulston went on to tell CIO magazine that the company expects 30 to 40 percent of notebooks to have Draft N capabilities by the second half of next year. Related news items Telstra Wireless Hits Speed Record -24/09/2007 HP Goes iPaq Mad -06/09/2007 Leather-Bound ThinkPad Has Its Own Nerd -06/09/2007 Broadcom Enthusisam for 802.11n Wavers -06/09/2007 D-Link Boosts Draft N Range -30/07/2007 Newer news items Fujitsu Siemens To Give Up On PDAs -13/08/2007 HP Plans More iPaqs As PDAs Become Smartphones -12/08/2007 Motorola Mobile Office Has Barcode Reader -02/05/2007 Q1 #2 -19/03/2007 Older news items Hard Times Are The Only Increase For PDA Makers -07/08/2006 O2 Beefs Up XDA Atom For Business Users -28/06/2006 Acer Plans PDA Phone, GPS Devices -04/06/2006 BlackBerry Shows Its Fun Side -09/05/2006 PDAs CONTINUE DECLINE: IDC -05/02/2006 Tag This Now: