Broadcom 802.11ac Wi-Fi chips hit CES 20122012-01-05 09:47 by DanielaTags: Broadcom, 802.11ac
Broadcom is sliding into CES with its first gigabit-speed 802.11ac chips, all based on fifth-generation WiFi technology. For those unaware, 5G WiFi is aimed at handling higher-bandwidth services like HD movie streaming, and the company claims that they're three times faster and up to six times more power efficient than similar 802.11n solutions. The fact that the chips can transmit a much larger amount of data in the same amount of time, compared with 802.11n devices, means that the 5G Wi-Fi devices can enter low-power mode faster and more frequently, resulting in significant reductions in power consumption. Broadcom's new family of 5G Wi-Fi chips: the BCM4360, BCM4352, BCM43526, and BCM43516. All four chips, members of the BCM43xx family, support 80-MHz channel bandwidth, 256-QAM modulation, transmit and receive beamforming, low density parity check codes, and space-time block codes. Read more -here-
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