As technology evolves, more and more mobile computing solutions are bound to integrate seamlessly into our everyday lives. If you try some out-of-the-box thinking and begin to expand the cloud computing concept, you will realize that wireless technologies are a big part of our future.

That is why companies like Quantenna are always enhancing current Wi-Fi technologies and improving on already available solutions. The company has recently announced that it's working on providing one of the first integrated 802.11n solutions. This newly developed chip is the size of a small coin and comes with a lot of impressive features. Quantenna promises Tx beam forming and 4x4 Multiple Control/Multiple Output. These two features are meant to boost the WiFi range a lot further at speeds of 1Gbps. While I'm fairly confident this is only good on paper, I wouldn't mind seeing 100Mbps in practice. After all, having a WiFi connection that can take advantage of my entire broadband connection is a very sweet deal.

The company also states Vector Mesh Networking will be available and the chip will come in 3 flavors: a 2.4GHz version, a 5.0GHz model and one to rule them all, the dual-band 2.4/5GHz model. Quantenna promises that device manufacturers will be provided with functional samples of the chip at the end of the year. What for? Everybody will be out on holiday leave, no?

Prices are pretty much OK for such a chip, and are set at $20 for the single band models and $40 for the dual-band version. Interesting how mesh networking has made it's way in this chip since it isn't even finalized yet. Although that didn't stop 802.11n to come out and play months before its scheduled release. Actually, even now they are still working on the thing, with promises of a March release being made.

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