RE:Wifi 7 launched in France today …… Edgewater was compatible with Wi-Fi 3, then 4, then 5, then 6 and no 7. Over that same period of Wi-Fi 3 to Wi-Fi 6e effective throughput dropped from 50X to 8X. So I wonder what the difference will be this time? We are soon to find out as actual chips will be available to test against actual chips again.
Qualcomm's new Wi-Fi 7 chip-set sounds amazing. Does anyone have comparative specs on Edgewater's new chip? Or are they just licensing their technology and letting some other chipmaker work out the details? $400,000 for a license?
Qualcomm Specs: Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi/Bluetooth System: Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7900
Generation: Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7
Standards: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11a, 802.11ax, 802.11be
Encryption: 256-bit AES-GCMP, 128-bit AES-CCMP
Security: WPA3 Enhanced Open, FIPS 140-2, TLS, WPA2, AES-CCMP, PAP, MS-CHAP, PEAP, EAP-TLS, 128-bit WEP, MS-CHAPv2, WPA2-PSK, EAP-TTLS, 64-bit WEP, 256-bit AES-GCMP, Protected Management Frames, WPA3 Personal, WPA3 Enterprise, WPA3 Easy Connect, 128-bit AES-GCMP
Features: Passpoint, TDLS, OFDMA (UL/DL), Wi-Fi QoS Management, MU-MIMO (UL/DL), Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity, Wi-Fi Aware R3, Wi-Fi Location, Miracast, Voice-Enterprise, High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link, Target Wake Time, XPAN Technology
Bluetooth
Specification Version: Bluetooth® 6.0
UWB
Standards: IEEE 802.15.4z, Fine Ranging (FiRa), Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC)
Features: Time of Flight (ToF), Angle of Arrival (AoA)
Audio
Qualcomm® aptX™ audio technology support: Qualcomm® aptX™ Adaptive, Qualcomm® aptX™ Voice, Qualcomm® aptX™ Lossless
Audio Processing Technologies: Snapdragon Sound™ technology, Low latency Gaming mode with Voice back-channel, LE Audio, Spatial Audio
Other Audio Capturing Technologies: Stereo Recording
Process Node and Technoloy
Part
Part Number(s): WCN7880, WCN7881