Announcement of Broadcom's Wi-Fi 8 chip

The first Wi-Fi 8 chips have recently been announced, designed for broadband wireless peripheral systems including enterprise access points, home gateways, and mobile clients. This project is focused on the needs of peripheral networks in the AI era.

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In addition to new products from Broadcom, a flexible intellectual property licensing option will also be available to accelerate the process of integrating the technology into mobile, automotive, and other devices.

The company has combined planning technologies with Wi-Fi 8 capabilities to ensure better performance and higher speeds. The UHR feature will include options such as congestion avoidance, inter-point coordination, seamless roaming, and coverage extension. Broadcom representatives say that the Wi-Fi 8 access chip will have a hardware-accelerated telemetry module to optimize AI networks. This module will function in real time to collect data on network performance, environmental conditions, and devices. Collecting such information can help optimize perception, identify anomalies, and improve security through a predictive approach.

The company provides access to four different chips:

• BCM43820 and BCM43840 (for enterprise use).
• BCM6718 (for home access).
• BCM43109 (for mobile access).