Leading Wi-Fi chip manufacturers will be announcing a new industry forum on Monday to help accelerate efforts to create a new, faster Wi-Fi standard, according to a source close to the companies. Atheros, Broadcom, Intel and Marvel and have sidestepped the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ (IEEE) process to work on a draft of the new 802.11n standard, which the vendors plan to submit to the IEEE’s working group for consideration, sources said. The new standard is likely to be based on a technology called multiple-input/multiple-output, or Mimo, which could boost throughput on wireless LANs to more than 300Mbps. The 802.11a and 11g standards used today provide throughput between 20Mbps and 24Mbps. If all goes well, the new standard would be ratified in early 2007.