Looking to enable consumer electronic devices with wireless USB functionality, Samsung has unveiled a new wireless universal serial bus (W-USB) System-On-Chip (SoC) design. The new W-USB SoC design is a single chip solution combining an ARM core, a UWB physical layer, and a memory controller. There are also interfaces for SD card, MMC, NAND flash memory, and high speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go.

Electronic devices enabled with Samsungs W-USB SoC chip will be able to enjoy secure wireless connectivity at high transfer speeds. As an example, the new W-USB SoC can download a 700MB movie in approximately one minute. Samsung claims the W-USB SoC performs at 480Mbps with an average effective data download speed of 120Mbps.

Expect to see the W-USB SoC applied to devices such as digital cameras, and mobile phones and eventually to wireless printers, projectors, wireless hard disks, wireless displays, and wireless speakers. The Samsung W-USB SoC is currently sampling and will be in mass production in the second quarter of 2009.

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If you’re looking for a convenient way to “extend” or add another monitor to your PC or notebook, then check out IOGEAR’s Wireless USB to VGA Kit. The kit allows you to add another display to your PC using a wireless connection. Simply connect the included USB adapter to your PC and the VGA adapter to your display and then install the driver software. You can connect a VGA display up to 30 feet away from the PC (with 720p video streaming up to 15 feet away) with the monitor supporting resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 or 1680 x 1050. This is a certified Wireless USB 1.0 compliant device which is normally available for $229.95. IOGEAR is currently offering a 15% discount on the product here.

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Realtek has announced that upcoming Fujitsu notebooks will feature Wireless USB built right into the system. Realtek knows this since the company is providing the chips to enable support within the notebooks. No word on which specific models will have Wireless USB but the systems will supposedly be available in the U.S. and in Europe.

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Now if you want to use that Wireless USB to VGA card device on your notebook system, you might want to get yourself one of these IOGEAR Wireless USB Cardbus Cards (Model GUWC100) since most (if not all) notebooks have yet to include built-in wireless USB support. IOGEAR also sells an ExpressCard version of the device (model GUWCE100). These IOGEAR Wireless USB cards transform any laptop into a Wireless USB enabled system – allowing you to communicate with other certified Wireless USB enabled devices. Features include:

• Transfer rates up to 480 Mbps
• Secure Wireless Connection
• Multi-path antenna design for better distance and performance
• Up to 10 meter (30 foot) distance
• Complies with Multi-band OFDM UWB 1.0 specification

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