Intel red faced after WiMAX demo fails
Intel used its Developer Forum in Beijing to name the date it would be introducing WiMax in notebooks: by the end of June 2008. But it was embarrassed during a keynote when it couldn't actually get the technology to work.
Intel's Senior Vice President David Perlmutter (above, right) was left red-faced after a live demo of WiMax technology in front of the world media failed just seconds into a wireless video streaming exercise.
Perlmutter had just spent several minutes describing how WiMAX would deliver "true mobile internet", with MIMO WiMAX delivering two to six megabit per second average throughput rates.
