Intel to spend $500 million on Wimax deployment ….. in Taiwan

Channeling Intel: Dear Americans, we conceived and largely developed Wimax here, and believe that there is a ready market. While the builders of the first nationwide Wimax networks are strapped for cash and looking for investors we are handing Tiawan a load of cash to build out there instead.

INTEL ANNOUNCED bright and early on Monday morning that they’ll be chucking $500 million Taiwan’s way, spread out over the next half a decade to develop the Island’s WiMax infrastructure. The agreement will also apparently try to promote a greater level of WiMax congruency among gear developers. (The Inquirer)

Unfortunately for Americans, the developers of Laptops and other portable technology are in Taiwan, so they get first dibbs. It makes sense when you consider there is nary a single PC manufacturer in the LTE camp today and Wimax has a time to market advantage over competing technologies. Could it also be that Intel would rather not do battle with the US telcos who now have a lock on the majority of access both fixed and wireless access?