Wi-Fi 7 SoC from MaxLinear for gateways, Wi-Fi routers

RF and analog semiconductor chip maker MaxLinear has made available Wi-Fi 7 SoC chips for designing high speed gateways and Wi-Fi routers. The single chip solution is designed to provide formfactor advantage, less time to development, in designing next-gen gateways routers and access points. Wi-Fi 7 SoC chips offer more than 70% higher tri-band throughput compared to Wi-Fi 6. IEEE 802.11be standard based Wi-Fi 7 chips are called Extremely High Throughput (EHT) supporting data speeds of 11.5Gbps on the 6GHz spectrum by delivering higher spectrum and power efficiency and better interference mitigations. Compared to Wi-Fi 6, the new Wi-Fi 7 uses a bandwidth of 320MHz and a modulation of 4096 QAM. The chips are currently sampling to selected partners and MaxLinear expects its chip-enabled products are expected in 2023. “Our Wi-Fi 7 single-chip solution enables fast, robust, and reliable connectivity elevating the user experience,” said Will Torgerson, vice president and general manager, Broadband group for MaxLinear. “We help our partners reduce complexity, drive form-factor innovation, and spend less time designing next generation gateways, routers and access points.” “The number of Wi-Fi connected devices at home and at the office is skyrocketing and will continue to do so as we move to Wi-Fi 7 and its greater capacity, speed, and reliability. Wi-Fi 7 will enable...