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Chinese end users won't be able to take advantage of a feature in Intel Corp.'s upcoming Grantsdale and Alderwood chipsets that allows PCs to function as access points for a wireless network unless the dispute over China's wireless LAN (WLAN) standard is resolved, a company executive said Saturday.

Three senior U.S. government officials this week weighed in on the controversy surrounding China's implementation of a national standard for wireless LANs (WLANs ) with a letter to senior Chinese officials that described the move as a barrier against international trade, a U.S. trade group said Thursday.

The Chinese government has settled on a policy that wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment made in China and sold for use there must implement a Chinese standard called Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI).

The implementation of a Chinese security standard for wireless networking could undermine efforts to develop a global standard for wireless LANs (WLANs) and drive up the cost of networking equipment for end users, warned a senior executive at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) in a recent letter to Chinese government officials.