Intel Demos SW-Defined WiFi/WiMAX/DVB-H Chip

Doc Ruby writes: Electronics Weekly reports:

Intel has developed a test chip for software defined radio that can handle WiFi, WiMAX and DVB-H digital TV in one chip. This kind of chip would allow equipment to access the WiFi network in the home, automatically handover to a WiMAX network when you leave the house and also access digital TV on the move, all through one chip.

It's also a proof that the entire class of SW radios that could also possibly converge CDMA, GSM and various other radio networks for opportunistic handoffs by a single device, a "universal radio" that could converge all wireless device types into a single device that can use content formerly locked into a single radio type.