Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:09:16 GMT, DigitalVinyl
> <DigitalVinyl@internet.com> wrote:
>
>>I haven't seen that but i believe there are only three wireless chip
>>manufacturers in the world and everyone's products are packagings of
>>those three's.
>
> Well, let's see:
>
> ADMTek
> Agere (Lucent)
> Airgo
> Aironet
> Atheros
> Atmel
> Broadcom
> InProComm
> Intel (Centrino)
> Intersil/Frisbee
> IPW
> Marvel
> NWN (3com)
> Orinoco
> Philips (Centrino)
> Prism (Harris/Intersil/etc)
> Ralink
> Realtek
> Symbol
> Texas Instruments
> Zydas
>
> Probably a few more that I forgot. Anyway, more than three chip
> vendors.

Well, he said "manufacturers". I'm not convinced that those are all unique
manufacturers (in fact, ipw is "Intel"). I've certainly heard that
Orinocos can be based on different chipsets.
--
derek