Intel Huron River to Boast Kilmer Peak WiMAX Adapter

Though the platform is still in development, quite a bit of information has surfaced, recently, on the Intel Huron River. This platform is meant to power the next generation of Intel-based laptops and, thus, strives to be both as power efficient and feature packed as possible. Intel, of course, like any other hardware developer, would like to keep things under wraps for as long as possible. Nevertheless, nothing can escape the vigilant gaze of market watchers for long.

The last report about this technology revolved around the fact that the integrated graphics core within the Sandy Bridge CPUs would be capable of playing Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D media and HDMI 1.4. Now, the folks over at Fudzilla managed to uncover another interesting fact, this time with regard to wireless connectivity.

Currently, only a limited number of high-end Calpella-based notebooks feature support for WiMAX. Said machines have this ability thanks to the Kilmer Peal 2x2 AGN adapters. The Huron River, as end-users know, will replace the Calpella platform, which means that the aspect of wireless connectivity should improve as well. Sure enough, the report states that the Centrino Advanced N + WiMAX 6250 Kilmer Peak adapter will supposedly be available on most, if not all, new notebooks starting next year. It is interesting to note that, while on the rise, WiMAX is not exactly expected to overly grow even in 2011, which means that Kilmer Peak may be slightly ahead of its time.

The CPUs at the heart of the Huron River, the aforementioned Sandy Bridge, will be monolithic chips, with a unified core that includes both computing and graphics components. They will be based on the 32nm manufacturing process. Intel will also reportedly bring out a number of Centrino adapters with Bluetooth and WiFi support for other market segments.