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Old April 9th 04, 03:04 AM
charles liu
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(Dionaea muscipula) wrote in message . com...
Sumner Lemon of IDG News Service contributed the report on Intel CEO
Craig Barrett's speech in Shenyang, China, which stresses the
importance of international standards in developing new IT products.

"The fastest way to move into the rapidly growing digital economy is
to adopt standards,


First of all, he didn't say global standard here. Second of all does
corporation's desire for growth and profit trump a nation's
sovereignty? Specifically is China in the right to regulate China's
bandwidth within her own sovereign territory however she sees fit?
Celleular phone is a fitting example here. I know of at least 3
cellular standards in US, and 5+ all around the world. Yet people can
make world phone (Nokia, Motorola for example) that works with them.

If one wishes to argue this way, why not demand the world to drop
their languages and adopt English? How about demand 99% of the world
to abandon the metric system and everyone standardize on english
system?

which will enable government and businesses to
maximize their investments and obtain industry-leading performance at
lower cost and with greater choice," said Craig. Craig was addressing
some Chinese government officials and business executives.

Currently there is a trade dispute between the U.S. and China over the
implementation of a Chinese wireless local area network (WLAN)
standard. China requires all WLAN equipments sold in the country to
conform to the local standard after June 1, and foreign companies must
license WAPI through coproduction agreements with one of around 20
Chinese companies.


WAPI is but another standard to the currently *already* fragmented
WiFi market full of "standards". In addition to WEP, there's WPA
supposedly better, and there are other security protocols you can
choose to use if they make you feel any safer, like LEAP CKIP WAS
WEAS...

Yup, you guessed it, Centrino provides legacy support for them all.
Legacy support is an essential part of product development. Will Intel
threaten to not support new standards when current 11b wireless
standard become obsolete? (Not that it isn't already.)

Another example I can give you is Centrino's legacy support for this
obsolete oddball wireless standard (11a on a different frequency) it
pushed but no one adopted... Gee, sounds familiar?

According to this report, which can be read in
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/...andards_1.html
Intel is not the only WLAN chipset maker which declines to support
China WAPI. Texas Instrument Inc. does not have plans to support it
either.


Are Intel and TI the only two WLAN chipset maker in the world?