Comments on: Intel takes aim at computer cable madness

Chipmaker opens an interoperability lab to test the upcoming wireless USB specification.

[Mendz]

vs. Bluetooth?

Hmmm... Something to watch...

go Apple!

Great to see their relationship with Apple Computer is having a
positive influence!

[Kamokazi]

Easy there fanboy..

The concept of a wireless USB protocol has been tossed around and experimented with for a while now. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with their relationship with Apple.

[RicktheBrick]

speeds too fast

110 Megabytes seems to be too fast. That is faster than most hard drives now communicate with the microprocessor because it can not handle that kind of speed. The article than states it can do 480 Megabytes at distance of up to 10 feet. At this speed everything should be wireless including the microprocessor. I would think that only dc power would have to be wired to the microprocessor and everything else including access to ram memory would be wireless. I would think that one could add another microprocessor like one now adds a hard drive so one could have maybe 4 or more microprocessors per computer.

It's a typo

The first reference to "110 megabytes" is a typo, it should be "megabits."

If you look at the reference to "480 Mbps" that gives the clue the first reference is a typo, "Mbps" means megabits vs. megabytes.

So we're looking at over 13 megabytes at 32 feet, not too shabby.