You may have thought you’d heard the last of UltraWideBand (UWB) after 2003’s storm of enthusiasm for the short range wireless technology fizzled out amid standards battles and disappointing performance. A bitter stand-off between two rival approaches to deploying the low power network ‘ led by Intel/Texas Instruments and Motorola respectively ‘ ended with the UWB-based WiMedia standard being adopted only for Wireless USB, and elsewhere superseded by new high speed, low power techniques such as running Wi-Fi in 60GHz bands. But UWB may be back. The IMEC research institute in Belgium will, early next year, demonstrate a chipset using UWB initially for audio streaming. Like several of the last wave of UWB pioneers, IMEC is adapting an air interface…