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By Greg Sandoval
Posted on ZDNet News: May 9, 2006 12:00:00 PM

Niche PC maker Alienware has chosen chipsets made by Airgo Networks to power two game-focused laptops, the companies are expected to announce Tuesday.

Alienware's 17-inch Aurora m9700 and 19-inch Aurora mALX notebooks are equipped with the Airgo's Gen3 True MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), the companies are expected to announce during the E3 Expo, a massive conference in Los Angeles dedicated to video games.

Airgo's chips are designed to connect a computer with Wi-Fi systems at speeds fast enough to make high-performance gaming possible, Airgo executives said. Dell announced in March that it would acquire Alienware.

"Because high-performance users are increasingly embracing mobile platforms, Airgo's True MIMO technology underscores Alienware's ongoing commitment to delivering the highest performance systems," Mark Vena, Alienware's vice president of marketing, said in a statement.

MIMO technology has been adopted as the core of the new IEEE 802.11n MIMO interoperability standard. MIMO is Wi-Fi certified, and can be used with any other Wi-Fi certified 802.11 device on a network, Airgo said.

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Didn't Dell acquire Alienware recently?  HypnoToad72 | 05/09/06
Hasn't changed a thing so far.  ShadeTree | 05/09/06

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