Monday, 25 May 2020

Intel Buys Rivet Networks

Intel has bought the company behind the popular Killer brand of Wi-Fi products found in laptops from Alienware, Dell, Lenovo, HP and more.

Intel and Rivet have been key competitors for last several years.

https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-has-acquired-the-company-behind-killer-wi-fi-cards

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Palma Ceia SemiDesign to use Agile Analog Configurable IP

Agile Analog, a leading provider of semiconductor analog IP, today announced Palma Ceia SemiDesign, a provider of communication chips and IP for WiFi HaLow and Cellular NB-IoT applications, has selected Agile Analog’s data converter and power management IP for its next-generation of WiFi and cellular IoT products.

5G networks are now fatser than WiFi



Open Signal has been benchmarking speeds of WiFi and newly rolled 5G networks. It turns out that 5G is now offering higher speed than WiFi in various countries around teh world as shown in the diagram above.

For more details: https://www.opensignal.com/2020/05/06/5g-download-speed-is-now-faster-than-wifi-in-seven-leading-5g-countries

Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Low Power IoT System Design with Cypress MCUs and Wi-Fi

An online webinar is being held on June 1st by Cypress. Here is the agenda:

  1. PSoC 6 Low Power IoT MCU Overview
  2. CYW43012 Low Power Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Radio Overview
  3. Wi-Fi Power Saving Techniques 
  4. Host MCU Power Optimization Techniques
  5. Low Power Assistant Middleware
  6. How To Get Started & Resources

Monday, 11 May 2020

Dialog Launches two modules for ultra low power Wi-Fi connectivity

The modules have 4MB flash and required RF components which including a crystal oscillator, RF-lumped filter, and either a chip antenna or a u.FL connector.


https://www.embedded-computing.com/iot/dialog-semiconductor-extends-iot-connectivity-portfolio

WiFi-6 adoption to benefit Taiwanese RF players

According to Digitimes, Taiwance IC vendors Mediatek, Realtek and RichWave are all expetced to benefit from Wi-Fi 6 adoption in 2020. 

With its share in China's Wi-Fi RF chip market much higher than than 5% share it holds globally, the growing sales of Wi-Fi 6 RF chips are likely to contribute 20% to RichWave's total revenues in 2020, said the sources.

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20200506PD204.html

Friday, 8 May 2020

Wi-Fi Ecosystem


Wi-Fi Chip Makers (abgn, ac, ax)

Broadcom
Qualcomm
Samsung
Dialog
Silabs
Nordic
Espressif
Redpine Signals -> Acquired by Silabs
CSR -> Acquired by Qualcomm.
Nanoradio -> Acquired by Samsung
Palma Ceia Semi Design

Wifi HaLow (802.11ah)
Adapt IP
Morse Micro

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Caltech to double its claim for patent infringement by Apple and Broadcom

$1.1B isn't enough.  Demanding royalties for current and future sales as well. 

Silabs acquisition of Redpine Signals

The acquisition will increase Silabs revenue by $20M with an annual cost of $15M. 

6GHz Wi-Fi to generate $183 billion by 2025, study says

The FCC's proposal for the 6GHz band would open it for standard-power Wi-Fi connections, and also for low-power indoor connections (LPI) and very-low-power connections (VLP). The latter two are the bread and butter for machine-to-machine communications (M2M), which could prove pivotal as the Internet of Things continues to evolve.