Intel has completed the design of its first mobile WiMAX baseband chip, pairing it with a previously announced multiband WiMAX/WiFi radio to create the WiMAX Connection 2300 chipset.

This chipset was demonstrated last week at the 3G World Congress in Hong Kong by executive vice president Sean Maloney. ?WiMAX Connection 2300 will help speed the deployment of mobile WiMAX and accelerate the availability of a new wave of ?personal broadband? laptops,? he claimed.

The baseband chip features multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) functionality to enhance signal quality and data throughput and the chipset brings Intel a step closer to an integrated wireless SoC. This, it claims, will help drive WiMAX adoption by maximizing usable space in mobile devices.