Intel is developing an integrated module, which would allow quick data transfer while on the move, with plans to launch it next year.

"We are developing an integrated Wi-Fi/Wi-Max module, a single module that has both capabilities, that will be available for laptops and ultra-mobile devices next year," Intel's president and CEO Paul Otellini said at the Intel Developer Forum.

Next year, the company would come out with an optimised Penryn microprocessor which would be fitted with Wi-Fi and WiMAX.

Otellini said with notebook computers likely to overtake desktops in volume sales in the next couple of years, the new technology would bring in a seamlessly integrated global network.

"We all expect to be connected everywhere. In fact, it is right from many perspectives... Mobility has a lot of room to improve," he said, adding that the world needed new devices, new services and new products.

PTI