INTEL CAPITAL has bunged some $3 million at a company called Aicent Inc, mainly because the outfit dabbles with Wimax.

Aicent of San Jose, said the investment will be used to accelerate its 3G and 4G global data roaming initiatives including mobile Wimax.

And Intel loves Wimax. It is throwing its massive weight behind the wireless technology so it can connect us all up with chip implants and keep an eye on us just in case we're up to no good, or - we're guessing - buy chips made in China.

Lynn Liu, co-founder president and CEO of Aicent said, "The investment from Intel Capital will allow Aicent to expand and accelerate our research and development of new interoperability technologies that support the broad adoption of Wimax.”

She reckons that, "because we live in a global society, it is imperative for wireless service providers to allow their roaming subscribers to bring their personalised mobile broadband experience with them."

Aicent's technology builds links between the Interweb and mobile phone networks to allow messages to pass back and forth. It claims to have over a billion mobile subscribers on 100 mobile networks.

For its part, Intel reckons Aicent "is poised to play a key role in worldwide adoption of Wimax..." should such a thing come to pass. µ

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