YAKUM, Israel — Japan's Renesas Technology Corp. will work with Metalink Ltd. to integrate Renesas’s SH4 and Metalink's 802.11n processors for applications in the home entertainment market.
Metalink, a specialist in processors for broadband wireless and wireline networks, developed the 802.11n processor for high-speed wireless LANs. Renesas’s SH4 processor manages multimedia traffic between the 802.11n processor and wireless networks.
According to ABI Research, 802.11n processors sales will reach $212 million in 2006 and $2.3 billion by 2008. A draft standard has been approved, and the spec is expected to take effect the end of 2006.
Another Israeli wireless developer, Ceragon Networks Ltd., said it has launched family of products to transmit data at up to 400 Mbps. Ceragon claims that expanding transmission speed from 50 to 400 Mbps makes it possible to use software only to handle higher levels of network traffic.
