Small Atheros Wi-Fi Wireless Chips

Atheros Shrinks Wi-Fi Wireless Networking Chips So They Can Fit In The Tiniest Applications

Atheros Communications said in the fall that its tiny Wi-Fi chips would be used in a range of exciting new applications. It revealed at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January that its chips are used in the award-winning Eye-Fi SD memory cards. The cards have a built-in wireless networking antenna that lets them automatically upload digital camera images to networked computers or even Internet photo sites such as Flickr. The Atheros ROCm mobile WLAN chips in the Eye-Fi cards are able to get wireless reception even through the metal casing of digital cameras. Eye-Fi cards will be used in a variety of cameras, including models from Nikon.