"Frustrated by an impasse in the IEEE standards body, Intel Corp and its partners have decided to pull out of the standards organization and develop their own version of ultrawideband technology. The MultiBand OFDM Alliance, backed by Intel, Texas Instruments Inc., and others, will design their own UWB radio layer and the associated silicon. Many of the MBOA member companies also announced the Wireless USB Promoter Group on Wednesday, which will use the eventual MBOA standard to run the Universal Serial Bus protocol over the UWB radio," reports Extreme Tech.
"For Intel, UWB's appeal is simple: eliminating the USB and IEEE 1394 cords that connect consumer and other devices with a PC. 'Our job is to kill the wires and we think that UWB is the technology that kills the rat's nest (of wires),' said Pat Gelsinger, chief technology officer of Intel, at the Intel Developer Forum here."
