HP 675794-001, WLAN card, HP, Presario CQ45, Compaq 2000, Compaq 1000

The AR9485 single-chip PCI Express solution features Qualcomm Align 1-stream 802.11n. Align employs all the mandatory and select optional features of the 11n specification, and Qualcomm's advanced radio design techniques. The AR9485 leverages unprecedented silicon integration and an advanced 55 nm design to offer the industry's lowest power consumption and manufacturing costs - making it the "greenest" WLAN solution on the market. The AR9485 extends Qualcomm's family of Align 1-stream 802.11n solutions, which are featured in 9 of the top 10 PC brands.

The highly-integrated AR9485 targets the value computing market. The AR9485 provides a complete WLAN solution - media access controller (MAC), baseband, and a high-performance 2.4 GHz radio in a low-cost digital CMOS design.

The AR9485 is backward compatible to 802.11b/g and forward compatible to multi-stream 11n. Targeting the growing value computing products market segment with 150 Mbps PHY rates, Align is the ideal technology for computing users seeking robust throughput, enhanced range and extended battery life for data networking applications as well as P2P applications.