InfoWorld's Dan Nystedt reports today that the FCC has approved Clearwire's first WiMax PC card for laptops, built by Motorola. The company plans to make the card available to users later this year.

As TG Daily's Wolfgang Gruener notes, "As it was the case with Wi-Fi integration, also WiMax is likely to become part of wireless chipsets for notebooks and eventually part of integrated processor packages. Intel recently said that it will be offering a WiMax chipset for its Centrino technology as part of the 'Montevina' platform: Montevina is scheduled to be released with the 'Echo Peak' WiMax/Wi-Fi chipset in the first half of 2008."

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