Inprocomm

Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = InProComm Inc.
fate = Merged into MediaTek
successor = MediaTek
foundation = 2003
defunct = 2005
location = Hsinchu, Taiwan
key_people = Kwang-Cheng Chen, founder
industry = Semiconductors
products = Wireless LAN

InProComm Inc. was a wireless semiconductor design firm, based in Taiwan. The company originally focused on producing 802.11a, b and a/g chips before beginning to branch out to other portable devices [cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RG3OL5MCGZXLMQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=52600855|title=InProComm designs chips for WLAN apps in portables|publisher="EE Times"|date=2005-11-15|accessdate=2007-10-15] . It was acquired by MediaTek Inc in early 2005 [cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RG3OL5MCGZXLMQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=160700149|title=Taiwan's top chip house stretches beyond optical storage|publisher="EE Times"|date=2005-04-11|accessdate=2007-10-15] .

Products

InProComm produced six wireless chip designs in total, along with accompanying reference designs for PCI, mini-PCI and CardBus. IPN2120 and IPN2220 are the most common; in particular, D-Link used an IPN2220 chip in their DI-624M router, and Linksys used the IPN2120 in some of their PCI cards (such as the WMP11 version 4) and mini-PCI cards - Linksys mini-PCI cards with IPN2220 can be found in some of the 2004 laptop models, such as the TravelMate 2300 and Aspire 1520 series from Acer, and the Packard Bell Easynote A5560 from HP. InProComm chips have also been used in Buffalo and Toshiba products. [cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RG3OL5MCGZXLMQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=52600855|title=InProComm designs chips for WLAN apps in portables|publisher="EE Times"|date=2005-11-15|accessdate=2007-10-15] .

References

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040924072845/http://www.inprocomm.com.tw/ - InProComm website (from Wayback Machine, as of 2005-09-24)] [ftp://ftp.dlink.com/GPL/DI-624M/ - D-Link source code for DI-624M (includes binary Linux driver for IPN2200)]