Development of the first chips for communications WirelessHD

The company announced SiBeam. the development of the first set of chips for use in wireless communication systems WirelessHD.
Digital interface WirelessHD will be passed between consumer devices and audio stream of high quality uncompressed. It is assumed that the standard WirelessHD will be used to provide wireless communication between the TV, DVD- players, game consoles and other digital devices. In developing the standard WirelessHD participate. a number of well-known companies, including LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), NEC, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba. Bandwidth connection WirelessHD theoretically be as high as 5 Gb / s range - 10 meters. The new standard is based on the use of unlicensed frequency band 60 GHz.
As for the chipset SiBeam, he was named OmniLink60. In the production OmniLink60 will apply standard CMOS technology. It is expected that at the initial stage OmniLink60 chips will be used in wireless communication systems, high-quality video. The company has already filed SiBeam several patents on the technology implemented in the chip OmniLink60. It is planned that the first products based on OmniLink60 will be demonstrated either later this year, or within the Consumer Electronics Show 2008, which will be held in January next year.
Source:. Kompyulenta.