2011/1/22 Daniel Halperin [off-list ref]:

2011/1/21 Gábor Stefanik [off-list ref]:

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On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Wey-Yi Guy [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Wey-Yi Guy <redacted>

Adding 2000 series devices supports, the 2000 series devices has
many different SKUs which includes 1x1 and 2x2 devices,also with

Is it just me, or is Intel really abandoning 3-stream 802.11n technology?

It's just you.  They released the 6300 not that long ago!  But think
about the market, how many 3-stream APs can you buy today?

Well, there is the Airport Extreme, the D-Link DIR-665 (with a
Marvell-chipped mini-PCI card inside), and also an offering from
Senao.

Atheros
still doesn't even have a 3-stream NIC end users can buy (though some
companies are getting close!), but Intel's had one for nearly 3 years.

There's a lot more room in the market at the low end, and that's where
it makes sense to put your efforts towards product diversity.
Manufacturers are looking for chips for printers, phones, netbooks,
tiny laptops, etc., why would they pay for the silicon for extra
processing and the design constraints(!) for extra antennas when it's
not going to get used?  Heck, a lot of these APs (see, e.g., Apple's
airport express) only come with 100 Mbps wired ports!

Dan

The problem is that what I currently see is that Intel is updating the
basic 2x2 half-mini offering (true, they are also releasing Bluetooth
combos and other new devices, but AFAIK one of the "g2" devices is
exactly the same feature-wise as the Centrino 6200), while the 6300
has not received any update ("released not that long ago"? AFAIK it's
been a year at least since it came out), and the 6350 was cancelled
before release, leaving 5350 without a successor.