Roundup: Qualcomm @Embedded World, Comcast cranks up Wi-Fi speeds, new Wi-Fi HaLow products, Plume’s ‘5G.11 Offload’
The past week’s top Wi-Fi news from around the world. Enjoy.
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Embedded World: Synaptics targets US$3.2B ultra-low-power IoT chip market with new Wi-Fi/BLE/Thread SoC
The connectivity chip complements Synaptics new AI-native SR-series MCUs enabling a host of new intelligent use cases, the company says.
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New pre-certified Wi-Fi 6/BLE modules simplify development & speed up IoT device time-to-market, says Silicon Labs
New modules from Silicon Labs allow developers to focus more strongly on innovation.
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PinnedWorld’s first Wi-Fi HaLow Global Summit & expo coming to Mountain View, California, on April 28, 2025
We’re excited to be conducting the first ever major event dedicated to Wi-Fi HaLow.
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New opportunities in Wi-Fi: Expanding to non-connectivity use cases
Connectivity is no longer the only useful application for Wi-Fi signals. Here as some of the latest developments.
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Cisco launches new Wi-Fi 7 APs to power intelligent spaces, deliver AIOps, introduce simplified licensing
The new Wi-Fi 7 APs are now more than anything enablers of ‘Cisco Spaces’.
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Industry update: Mass-market wireless IoT with Wi-Fi HaLow (Wednesday, Nov 20 @ 8:00 am CET / 5:00 pm AET)
Wi-Fi HaLow is transforming the world of wireless IoT – and it’s going mass-market fast. Get the full update here.
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Silicon Labs: New ultra-low power Wi-Fi 6 IoT chipset delivers up to 2 years of battery life
This week Silicon Labs released the world’s first Wi-Fi 6 chipset “designed from the ground up for IoT,” the company said.
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WorldVue @WWC Geneva: “Wi-Fi is the backbone of huge value creation opportunities for hotels”
The future hotel guest experience will be steeped in intelligent, near-instantaneous convenience all through the user journey.
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Guest blog: Tackling Wi-Fi 7 design and test complexity to accelerate IoT adoption
Our guest blog by LitePoint discusses the growing importance of Wi-Fi 7 in IoT – and how to test for the new use case.
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Silicon Labs: New ultra-low-power Wi-Fi IoT module drives down costs & speeds up time to market by up to 9 months
Silicon Labs is accelerates Wi-Fi IoT product launch by up to multiple months while reducing development costs materially.
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Industry megatrend: Innovations in ultra-low-power Wi-Fi IoT (Tuesday, June 18 @ 7:00 pm CEST / 10:00 am PDT)
Can ultra-low-power Wi-Fi become the new defacto industry standard for battery operated IoT devices?
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Qualcomm unveils new ultra-low-power Wi-Fi IoT chip to challenge Bluetooth’s dominance
Qualcomm says its new QCC730 Wi-Fi 4 SoC for battery-powered clients operates at 88% less power than previous generation chips.
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embedUR: “Intelligent client devices at the edge is a multi-billion dollar SW opportunity”
Embedded client software with AI requires a new kind of ecosystem player with very specific SW development skills, says embedUR.
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Nordic Semiconductor becomes world’s first combined Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, & satellite location silicon vendor
Nordic Semiconductor companion IC delivers critical Wi-Fi-based location information.
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Connectivity and distance: How Wi-Fi HaLow delivers a new picture for security cameras
Wi-Fi HaLow is the new Wi-Fi standard for IoT – and here’s how this new technology is transforming how security cameras are connected.
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