At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today, company CEO Paul Otellini (see photo) said Intel is "developing an integrated Wi-Fi/WiMAX module... that will be available for notebooks and ultramobile devices next year."

"In mid-'08, we're going to launch a new platform called Montevina," Otellini explained. "Montevina has a number of new features. It has an optimized Penryn microprocessor for that platform. It has a new chip set called Cantiga, which has better integrated graphics and other features. It has integrated Wi-Fi and WiMAX that I talked about a little bit earlier. It is a chipset that will support in native mode both HD-DVD and Blu-ray, so both of the high definition formats. And we're going to take the form factor, the footprint of this down by 50 percent. And for those of you working on very, very small form factors, I'm also pleased to announce today that we'll have a 25-watt version of this available when we start launching the product."

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