The Bluetooth Technology Guide 2026-2027 including silicon/solutions tracker – download it here
Everything you need to know about the most important changes in Bluetooth for a decade in one 40-page guide.
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Bluetooth Silicon & Solutions Tracker 2026-2027: LE Audio, Auracast, Channel Sounding, & HDT
The Bluetooth semiconductor ecosystem is evolving beyond conventional short-range connectivity. LE Audio and Auracast are enabling new wireless audio applications, Bluetooth Channel Sounding introduces secure distance measurement, and High Data Throughput (HDT) is extending Bluetooth LE into higher-capacity applications.
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Bluetooth Technology Guide Part 6: The Road to Battery-Free Connectivity with Bluetooth Ambient IoT
The next major expansion of Bluetooth may not involve faster data rates, better audio, or more precise positioning. Instead, it could involve connecting billions of everyday objects that have never been connected before – without requiring conventional batteries.
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Bluetooth Technology Guide Part Five: Bluetooth LE Audio & Auracast – will they reinvent wireless audio?
Bluetooth wireless audio is entering a new era: For decades, Bluetooth has been synonymous with wireless headphones, earbuds, speakers, and hands-free communication. Now a new generation of Bluetooth audio technology is expanding the possibilities far beyond conventional point-to-point connections.
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Bluetooth Technology Guide Part Four: Bringing Bluetooth into Real-Time Applications with Ultra-Low Latency
New developments in the Bluetooth specification aim to reduce communication latency, improve input responsiveness, and support increasingly demanding applications.
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BLE Technology Guide Part Three: Breaking the Speed Barrier with Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT)
BLE is preparing for its biggest increase in data rates since the introduction of the LE 2M PHY. Bluetooth SIG is developing High Data Throughput (HDT), a new feature designed to raise BLE speeds from today’s maximum of 2 Mbps to as much as 7.5 Mbps.
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Wi-Fi 8 operator validation in Brazil, TP-Link’s Wi-Fi 8, SPARK lands another client, FCC’s new UWB rules, Samsung combines UWB & BLE
The past week’s most important wireless news – enjoy.
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BLE Technology Guide Part Two: Bluetooth Channel Sounding – or Precision Ranging Comes to Bluetooth
Bluetooth has been able to determine whether another device is nearby for many years. What it has historically struggled to do is determine precisely how far away that device actually is. Bluetooth Channel Sounding changes this. Introduced with Bluetooth Core 6.0, Channel Sounding adds a standardised mechanism for secure, fine ranging between two Bluetooth Low Energy devices.
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A Technology Guide for Bluetooth LE Part One: Technology & Architecture
Bluetooth Low Energy has evolved from a low-power companion to Bluetooth Classic into the foundation for many of Bluetooth’s most important new capabilities. Understanding its radio architecture, protocol stack and communication models explains why Bluetooth is now expanding into positioning, audio, IoT, higher-performance applications and entirely new device categories.
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Roundup: Wi-Fi Alliance & Bluetooth SIG collaborate, Plume’s new CRO, Extreme’s multi-beam solution, & validating Wi-Fi 8
The past week’s top stories in Wi-Fi – enjoy.
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Your 5 minute brief: This WEEK in WIRELESS Saturday June 27, 2026
The second of our weekly 5-minute news & analysis briefs that we’ve chosen to call ‘This Week in Wireless’ – enjoy.
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Bluetooth’s Next Big Leap: More Than Just Faster Audio
Bluetooth is entering one of the most significant periods of innovation in its 25-year history, expanding far beyond audio into AI, gaming, precision location services, digital keys, and advanced device tracking.
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TECH WATCH: The latest innovations in Bluetooth – with Joel Linsky
We don’t cover Bluetooth often – but there’s so much going on with the new HDT standard that we feel it’s time. Here’s Qualcomm’s Joel Linsky.
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Guest Blog: How PHY-first radio traffic analysis helps manage Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® coexistence – by LitePoint
LitePoint’s PHY-first approach helps developers anticipate issues before devices reach consumers.
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