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Broadcom announces first chip family based on high-speed '5G' Wi-Fi standard

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Broadcom, the California-based semiconductor firm, has announced that it has developed its first family of chips based on the still-unratified high-speed  802.11ac Wi-Fi standard.
The impressive growth of digital media and wirelessly connected devices requires more reliable ways to connect to the internet, according to Broadcom Mobile & Wireless boss Michael Hurlston, who claimed that its '5G' Wi-Fi solves "this media explosion challenge".
In a statement, the semiconductor firm observed that its new 802.11ac chips will provide throughput from between 433Mbps in single-stream implementations to 1.3Gbps in three-stream schemes.
Additionally, the firm said that the new set of chips is far more power-efficient than current Wi-Fi circuits, pointing to the fact that it is up to six times more power-stingy than 802.11n.
The 802.11ac's faster speeds will allow files to be transferred faster, the firm explained, adding that this means that the chips will be able to drop down quicker into low-power mode.
The chips' 80MHz channel bandwidth, meanwhile, are two times wider than the current 802.11n setups, while Broadcom's 256-QAM scheme is able to transfer data more efficiently.
Broadcom explained that it is currently sampling the 5G WiFi chips to its "early access partners including retail and PC OEMs, service providers and carriers". Indeed, Netgear and Buffalo already have devices in their pipelines and the latter  unveiled its 802.11ac products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Although Broadcom is the first firm to offer a family of single-chip IEEE 802.11ac parts in high quantities, it is not the first to make 802.11acWi-Fi available to device makers. Quantenna Communications released its QAC2300 two-chip chipset and reference platform in November 2011. Redpipe Signals, meanwhile, released its Quali-Fi 802.11ac design in December last year.
Speculation has suggested that Qualcomm Atheros, Texas Instruments, and Marvell jump are set to implement the cutting-edge technology in their new end-users products, which are due out later this year.

Broadcom, the California-based semiconductor firm, has announced that it has developed its first family of chips based on the still-unratified high-speed  802.11ac Wi-Fi standard.


The impressive growth of digital media and wirelessly connected devices requires more reliable ways to connect to the internet, according to Broadcom Mobile & Wireless boss Michael Hurlston, who claimed that its '5G' Wi-Fi solves "this media explosion challenge".


In a statement, the semiconductor firm observed that its new 802.11ac chips will provide throughput from between 433Mbps in single-stream implementations to 1.3Gbps in three-stream schemes.


Additionally, the firm said that the new set of chips is far more power-efficient than current Wi-Fi circuits, pointing to the fact that it is up to six times more power-stingy than 802.11n.


The 802.11ac's faster speeds will allow files to be transferred faster, the firm explained, adding that this means that the chips will be able to drop down quicker into low-power mode.


The chips' 80MHz channel bandwidth, meanwhile, are two times wider than the current 802.11n setups, while Broadcom's 256-QAM scheme is able to transfer data more efficiently.


Broadcom explained that it is currently sampling the 5G WiFi chips to its "early access partners including retail and PC OEMs, service providers and carriers". Indeed, Netgear and Buffalo already have devices in their pipelines and the latter  unveiled its 802.11ac products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.


Although Broadcom is the first firm to offer a family of single-chip IEEE 802.11ac parts in high quantities, it is not the first to make 802.11acWi-Fi available to device makers. Quantenna Communications released its QAC2300 two-chip chipset and reference platform in November 2011. Redpipe Signals, meanwhile, released its Quali-Fi 802.11ac design in December last year.


Speculation has suggested that Qualcomm Atheros, Texas Instruments, and Marvell jump are set to implement the cutting-edge technology in their new end-users products, which are due out later this year.