Intel is preparing to unveil its battle plan for Wi-Fi 7. Expected by 2024, this next standard should double the speeds observed with the current Wi-Fi 6E standard.
The Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) is not for now, but Intel however, begins to seriously portray it. In a press conference held in Asia, Eric McLaughlin, vice president in charge of wireless solutions at Intel, confirmed that the firm had already made good progress on the standard which will replace the current Wi-Fi standard in a few years. -Fi 6E (802.11ax). With Wi-Fi 7, Intel intends to maximize the capabilities offered by Wi-Fi 6E, in particular thanks to reduced latency and more stable frequencies in 6 GHz.
As the Korean media points out ETNewsIntel’s roadmap also provides for Wi-Fi 7 twice as fast as Wi-Fi 6E and deployment first on laptops, within two years.
An ultra-fast Wi-Fi standard, but first deployed on laptops
« We are currently developing Intel’s 802.11be Wi-Fi to achieve Wi-Fi Alliance certification. It will be installed in PC products such as laptops by 2024“said Eric McLaughlin. “We expect adoption in major markets in 2025 ».
If Intel will focus first on the laptop market to develop its Wi-Fi 7, it is because the firm has already improved performance there. On laptop PCs, this new standard should notably reach a transfer speed of 5.8 Gbps, or 2.4 times what machines under Wi-Fi 6E currently offer. We also learn that Wi-Fi 7 will be able to reach a maximum speed of 36 Gbps in a data processing context and that the bandwidth offered is also practically doubled (320 MHz against 170 MHz on Wi-Fi 6E )… while all the optimizations are not done yet.
Obviously, Wi-Fi 7 will be destined to spread to many other markets, if only to be economically viable. Intel is immediately talking about applications in the gaming, AR / VR sectors, or even in the field of robotics. Currently, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and MediaTek are already preparing Wi-Fi 7 products of their own.
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