Broadcom Inc. has announced the industry’s first Wi-Fi 8 silicon solutions for the broadband wireless edge ecosystem, including residential gateways and smart mobile clients. The new family of Wi-Fi 8 solutions includes BCM6718, BCM43840, BCM43820, and BCM43109, designed for various applications. These solutions are engineered to address the demands of AI-era edge networks, offering faster speeds, longer range, optimized spectrum use, reduced contention, and predictable performance. Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 8 silicon includes features such as Inter-AP Coordination, Congestion Avoidance, Range Enhancements, Seamless Roaming, and Enhanced Modulation Coding Schemes.

These Wi-Fi 8 solutions are designed to meet the needs of AI-driven networks at the edge, providing robust low-latency symmetrical uplink-downlink capacity for various applications. Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 8 access silicon includes features like a hardware-accelerated telemetry engine for AI-driven network optimization and fine-grained telemetry for customers to design and deploy tailored AI services. The company’s Wi-Fi 8 silicon family, including BCM6718, BCM43840, BCM43820, and BCM43109, offers advanced capabilities for residential, enterprise, and mobile applications.

Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 8 solutions are not only standards-based but also reflect architectural enhancements for smaller footprint and better battery efficiency compared to Wi-Fi 7 solutions. The company aims to create a vibrant, AI-aware ecosystem of IoT, automotive, and mobile devices by offering its Wi-Fi 8 IP for licensing to industry players. The Wi-Fi 8 silicon is currently sampling to select partners, with the IP available for licensing. The new Wi-Fi 8 features in Broadcom’s silicon family aim to provide ultra-high reliability, congestion avoidance, range enhancements, seamless roaming, and enhanced modulation coding schemes for improved connectivity performance.

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