Nordic Semiconductor added Wi-Fi 6 companion to its Bt and cellular chips

Wireless radio transceiver chipmaker Nordic Semiconductor has launched Wi-Fi 6 companion chip nRF7002 for use in IOT electronic products. This announcement follows after company's buying of Wi-Fidevelopment team and the asset from Imagination Technologies. With this Nordic customers can have a single source for their Bluetooth Wi-Fi and cellular IOT radio chip requirements. Among the wireless protocols, Wi-Fi plays important role in smart home and is supported by leading product and cloud services vendors. Nordic do not want to miss out in the Wi-Fi area. Nordic now supports three wireless protocols of Bluetooth LE for commissioning, Thread for low power mesh networking, and Wi-Fi for high-speed wireless applications. nRF7002 is called as ‘companion IC’ due to its ability to provide seamless Wi-Fi connectivity and Wi-Fi-based locationing (SSID sniffing of local Wi-Fi hubs) when used with Nordic’s other non-Wi-Fi products such as nRF52 and nRF53 Series multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), and nRF91 Series cellular IoT Systems-in-Package (SiPs). The nRF7002 can also be with other host devices not made by Nordic. nRF7002 is designed to consume very low-power and offer high efficiency-gain and long life making it suitable for battery operated wireless IOT products. "Developing Nordic-based Wi-Fi 6 applications will be as simple as developing any other Nordic wireless...