On the 23rd January 2007, Intel announced their next generation Centrino WLAN chipset for notebooks, codenamed 'Kedron', marking their entry into the high speed Draft N wireless race. Kedron was initially supposed to be part of 'Santa Rosa', Intel's upcoming Centrino mobile chipset that is not due to be launched for another quarter, but Intel has revealed that the new Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN chipset will be available almost immediately with updated Centrino Duo (Napa Refresh) models. We should be seeing notebooks from major vendors like ASUS, Acer and Toshiba featuring this within the month.
The Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN is a quad-band embedded PCIe Mini Card network adapter is an upgrade to the previous PRO/Wireless 3945ABG chipset and is compatible with all three legacy 802.11a/b/g networks as well as Draft N. The chipset can operate in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, supporting advanced wireless technologies such as MIMO, payload optimizations and channel bonding in the 5GHz band. It is also supposed to be future proofed and ready for the final IEEE 802.11n standard when it is ratified.
In conjunction with the Kedron launch, Intel also initiated a new Connect with Centrino program, which is aimed at securing compatibility and performance of the Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN chipset with the various leading AP vendors out there. Asus, Belkin, Buffalo, D-Link and Netgear are the initial partners that have signed on and Intel has promised that additional vendors will be joining the program in time.
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