Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
He told iTWire this week that the first target was close to being met, but that economic rather than technical considerations were likely to delay the second. "We have sent our latest design off for fabrication. They are due back any day now, then we have to test them and see if they perform as designed."
On the subject of commercialisation, Skafidas said: "The market conditions may delay this. New technologies are taking longer to be incorporated into products, companies are consolidating their product lines. And of course the investment community is a bit smaller. That is a painful issue for me at this moment in time."
Skafidas said in February that NICTA's aim was to capitalise on the intellectual property within Australia and to build momentum for the local RF industry. "There is potential for creating a big company in Australia because we have a lot of RF expertise, and that is pretty scarce, especially in micro-electronics. We seem to have some competitive advantage there."
He told iTWire this week: "We are talking to potential investors and potential customers but things have slowed down. However we are having very good discussions with very well known multinational who is helping us incorporate the right features into our product so they can use it in their end user devices." He added: "we are talking to some of the biggest companies in the world."
NICTA is developing its 60GHz chip to support the emerging IEEE 802.11VHT standard and that from industry consortium WirelessHD, but Skafidas said these were only two of several contenders each optimised for different applications and it was still to early to pick winners.
"It is essentially a horse race and the various standards are targeting particular market segments - they are each designed to perform best for specific applications. WirelessHD is optimised for video transfer - having your DVD player talking to your plasma screen. The IEEE is working on two standards, IEEE 802.15.3c is mainly for the connecting computer peripherals. 802.11VHT is for data networking. Ecma's is more lower power simpler standard more for computer peripherals but it does have the support of all the major computer players.
"The ones which are well supported are Wireless HD and of course 802.11 which has been a successful standard in the past and which people know how it has worked with lower speed devices."
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