Qualcomm has taken steps to bolster its position in laptop computing and the rest of the non-phone categories such as wireless PDAs, subnotebooks, smart phones and ultramobile PCs. The company has acquired for an undisclosed amount Airgo, an established company offering multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology for 802.11n. Qualcomms Mobile Station Modem chip sets will be combined with Airgos 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n technology. Another $39 million has been spent by Qualcomm to buy the bulk the big chunk of RF Micro Devices Bluetooth group, such as a system-on-chip product based on the Enhanced Data Rate Bluetooth specification and a standalone RF chip for Bluetooth. Also, Airgos technology will be applied in chip sets founded on the open development platform, Snapdragon, which is geared towards wideband CDMA and cdma2000 as well as high-speed downlink/uplink packet access (HSDPA/HSUPA). Snapdragon is expected to be the focal point of gaming platforms, phone and ultramobile devices to back added networking features including Bluetooth, MediaFlo and Wi-Fi. The Snapdragon will be the main tool of Qualcomm against Intel CPUs. It features a 1-GHz control processor known as Scorpion and a 600-MHz DSP. In the first week of December 2006, Qualcomm came out with Airgos draft 2.0-compliant 802.11n chip set, the AGN400, leveraging Airgos patented work to enhance antennas throughput and range.