{"id":280311,"date":"2018-10-17T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=280311"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T09:08:52","slug":"qualcomms-new-60ghz-wi-fi-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/280311-qualcomms-new-60ghz-wi-fi-chips.html","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm&#8217;s new 60GHz Wi-Fi chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualcomm.com\/news\/releases\/2018\/10\/16\/qualcomm-dramatically-extends-wi-fi-experiences-5g-era-60ghz-80211ay\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> a new family of 60GHz Wi-Fi chipsets that are capable of delivering more than 10Gbps network speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm&#8217;s 60GHz Wi-Fi solution is the first to hit the market with optimizations based on the 802.11ay specification, which enables high speeds and wide coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 11ay solution provides the industry with the critical building blocks needed to take connectivity performance to the next level,&#8221; said\u00a0Rahul Patel, senior vice president and general manager of connectivity and networking at Qualcomm.<\/p>\n<p>The new chips &#8211;\u00a0the QCA64x8 and QCA64x1 ranges &#8211; also set the &#8220;industry low-power benchmark for extended battery life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The QCA64x8 chipsets will be used\u00a0for infrastructure and fixed wireless access, and the\u00a0QCA64x1 chipsets are designed for mobile applications.<\/p>\n<p>The mmWave-based 60GHz Wi-Fi is distinct from the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in that it is a low-interference, bandwidth-rich spectrum\u00a0that &#8220;delivers increased wireless capacity, multi-gigabit speeds, and ultra-low latency&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A major prospect for this new Wi-Fi technology is in the realms of gaming and virtual reality (VR).<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm said that due to the double-digit Gbps speeds, the new Wi-Fi solutions provide wire-equivalent latencies that will enable new experiences such as 4K streaming and wireless virtual and augmented reality, while providing high power efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomms new chipsets will not only improve on performance, but they will also\u00a0enable unique, always-on ambient Wi-Fi sensing capabilities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/280073-intels-new-9th-gen-core-cpus-support-128gb-of-ram.html\">Intel\u2019s new 9th-gen Core CPUs support 128GB of RAM<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has announced a new family of 60GHz Wi-Fi chipsets that are capable of delivering more than 10Gbps network speeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[54675,3524,749],"class_list":["post-280311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-wireless","tag-802-11ay","tag-qualcomm","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280377,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280311\/revisions\/280377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}