Samsung unveils ultra-fast wireless chipset
RUMOUR HAS IT that Samsung will be announcing a new ultra-fast wireless USB chipset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.
The 8mm square System on Chip (SoC) operates within normal domestic wireless frequencies but offers 120Mb per second transfer rates compared with the 50Mb per second currently available.
With a built-in ARM core, the chipset will purportedly be capable of downloading an average full length 700MB Divx movie in about a minute, whilst only sucking around 300mW of juice from the host device.
Offering interfaces for SD and MMC cards, as well as NAND memory and USB 2.0 without additional circuitry, the chipset will initially target digital cameras and mobile phones, but is expected to eventually find its way into printers, projectors and a whole host of other wireless gadgets.
The chipset, being sampled as we speak, is expected to go into full production within months. µ
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EE Times
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"compared with the 50Mb per second currently available."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong.
802.11n draft wireless (which has been available for what, almost 2 years now?) is 270Mb/s.
If I know anything about which number is bigger than the other number...
An Mb is a megabarn, a huge cross section. The "b" is the abbreviation for "barn", not "bit". Surely you mean Mbit, don't you? Just trying to make your article a bit more intelligible.
""compared with the 50Mb per second currently available." Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong. 802.11n draft wireless (which has been available for what, almost 2 years now?) is 270Mb/s. If I know anything about which number is bigger than the other number... "
Apparently you don't know anything, 802.11n is not WUSB. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
http://www.getusb.info/?s=wusb+hub
A wise man once said, "Standards are great - there are so many to choose from." Why not just bodge USB onto a faster Bluetooth?
M, K, B & b are ISO standards. Respectively 10^6, 10^3, Bell & barn. The correct form in ISO for Megabit is M2bit (the 2 should be superscripted so it looks like M squared, but this form is acceptable to ISO)
However in the context of computer science where the ISO standards are not commonly used, b is bit, B is byte, K is 2^10, M is 2^20.
To avoid confusion you simply need to pay attention and take note that the discussion does not involve nuclear physics :P
Hang on there, that's less than 12MB per second. At 50Mb/s, the existing USB wireless can do it too, no ?
How is this supposed to be an improvement ? Theoretically, at 50Mb/s a 700Mb pirate copy should be downloaded in 14 seconds. At 120Mb/s it should take just under 6 seconds. That would be progress.