A new range of Wi-Fi chips designed
to work with Wi-Fi 6 was announced on Tuesday, by Qualcomm Inc. Qualcomm hopes
that the newest version of the technology will help to boost sales of its
separate 5G chips. The biggest supplier of mobile phone chips, Qualcomm has
been looking to expand beyond as the global phone market has begun to saturate
in recent years. The tech company San Diego-based has been pushing instead into
chips for automobiles, headphones, laptops and other devices, whose Wi-Fi chips
are found in devices such as the ‘mesh’ Wi-Fi routers from Alphabet Inc’s
Google made and designed to help provide better coverage over an entire
household. Qualcomm is also working with phonemakers separately, such as
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to bring chips for 5G, the next generation of
wireless data networks, to phones. With the new series of Wi-Fi chips, there is
a hope for Qualcomm that its two lines of business will one day come together.
Wi-Fi 6 is expected to fully roll out by 2022. Both Wi-Fi 6 and 5G technology
differ from their predecessors, that are designed to work more closely
together, allowing Wi-Fi routers to more seamlessly hand off connections with
mobile phones and other devices that use both kinds of networks. The 5G
technology will also allow businesses to build their own private 5G networks to
connect large campuses, factories and other locations that remain difficult to
blanket with Wi-Fi in a better way, unlike previous 4G technology where the
networks were primarily owned by telecommunications companies.
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