Based on what I have seen, it may in fact be Intel that pushes WiMax into the mainstream.

Intel was the powerhouse that drove Wi-Fi towards ubiquity. Now it wants to do the same with WiMax, the long-range, high bandwidth technology that has been popularly described as “Wi-Fi on steroids”.

Fixed WiMax is already starting to reach the market in a behind-the-scenes sort of way, but many have suggested that the technology will only truly take off in its mobile form, which has taken longer to develop.

That momentum around mobile WiMax will receive a much-needed boost from the announcement on Monday of Intel’s Rosedale II chip, which the company hopes will soon be as standard in laptops and handheld devices as Wi-Fi is today.

But mobile WiMax faces significant challenges in the UK, particularly from fast-advancing 3G technologies and the mobile operators such as Vodafone and T-Mobile who have already invested heavily in them…. Source: ZDNet