Giving us a glimpse in to the future, Electronicsweekly reported that Intel has developed a single chip that can handle Wifi, WiMax and DVB-H signals.

Measuring a mere 24mm2 overall size and consumes 79mW of power in receive mode at 52Mbit/s and 72mW in transmit mode, this is one small but terrible chip. Aided by software, this single chip can switch from Wifi to WiMax instantly and is capable of accessing DVB-H singals for entertainment on the go.

With the development of such hardware, manufacturers can lessen the number of devices to handle each protocol individually with a do-it-all chip such as this which will pave the way for more compact and portable devices that can keep you connected wherever, whenever. This is still in the development stages and it might take a few more years (or months) before it goes into production as WiMax and DVB-H hasn’t become standard yet all over the world, but I wouldn’t mind if it comes out next year as 2008 is looking to be the birth year of WiMax and the battleground of DVB-H in our country .