Wi-Fi 7 Chips For Smarter IoT Devices

The Wi-Fi 7 chips combine Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee with low power use, high speed, and Matter support for smart home and IoT devices.

Synaptics Incorporated has expanded its Veros wireless portfolio with its first Wi-Fi 7 system-on-chip (SoC) family, designed specifically for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The new chips, SYN4390 and SYN4384, support up to 320 MHz bandwidth, enabling peak speeds of 5.8 Gbps and low latency. These triple-combo SoCs combine Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and Zigbee/Thread, with Matter support, and are optimized to reduce both system cost and power consumption.

Built for demanding IoT use cases such as 8K video streaming, gaming, AR/VR, security, and in-home or in-vehicle entertainment, the chips leverage Wi-Fi 7’s multi-link operation (MLO) to transmit data across the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands at the same time. This ensures reliable, low-latency performance. Synaptics’ architecture further enhances MLO with a focus on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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Some of the key features of the SoC family include:

• Works with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee/Thread
• Supports Matter for smart home use
• Up to 5.8 Gbps speed with Wi-Fi 7
• Uses less power and lowers system cost
• Built-in Bluetooth 6.0 with long range and LE Audio
• Has radio for Zigbee and Thread
• Built-in processor and memory reduce main chip load

“Growing adoption of Wi-Fi 7 in wireless networking infrastructure has created an opportunity to address a massive and diverse array of Wi-Fi 7-enabled IoT end-user devices by extending our Veros portfolio,” said Venkat Kodavati, SVP and GM of Wireless Products at Synaptics. “We are bringing the benefits of Wi-Fi 7 in a versatile solution for high-performance, low-power IoT devices. Combined with the ease of integration with our Astra AI-Native compute platform, we expect that developers will have an efficient solution for implementing next-generation connected and AI-enriched IoT products with features such as Wi-Fi Sensing.”

“Wi-Fi 7 is ushering in a new era of more enriching and sophisticated use cases for connected devices thanks to its channel bandwidth, throughput, and latency improvements,” said Andrew Zignani, Senior Research Director, ABI Research. 

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