The next
generation of AÃONWireless’ tablet – model AU116 LTE Intel i5/i7 – highlighted
by a 11.6″ touchscreen panel and Windows 8 compatibility, will be released
in the first half of 2012 and will also provide full LTE connectivity using
Altair’s FourGee -3100/6200 LTE chipset.
“As
tablet PCs continue to play an increasingly important role for professional and
personal use, it is important to ensure consumers that they are receiving the
very best when it comes to functionality, speed, performance and security,
something that we have achieved with our line of LTE tablets,”
said Dennis Murray, chief technology officer atAIONWireless.
AIONWireless
added that their partnership with Altair allows them to deliver the benefits of
LTE to our consumers, enabling them to fully enjoy the mobile experience.
“We are
proud to partner with AIONWireless on this unique LTE tablet, providing
end-users with superior speed and performance in a sleek and extremely
user-friendly product,” said Eran Eshed, co-founder and VP of
Marketing and Business Development at Altair Semiconductor.
Altair’s
FourGee-3100/6200 is a 3GPP LTE chipset that supports LTE throughputs in excess
of 100Mbps/50Mbps DL/UL respectively.
The chipset
implements a high performance MIMO receiver and is based on a
proprietary O²P™ Software Defined Radio (SDR) processor.
A few months
back, Altair Semiconductor and AsiaTelco Technologies, a supplier of wireless terminal
products, announced that Altair’s chipset has been integrated in AsiaTelco’s
TD-LTE Mobile Hotspot product, the ALM-F190.
