Qualcomm FastConnect 7800.The latest technological developments may make newcomers to the world of new technologies shudder… But given the overall very relative results of Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, 5G or Bluetooth 5.0, one can wonder.
Given the context, you should know that it is often the founders, that is to say those who design and develop the chips, who set the tone for the new products to come. Qualcomm therefore unveiled at the start of the week a new chip capable of managing the future Wi-Fi 7, while Wi-Fi 6 has not yet taken off… Everything should land in 2025…
A Wi-Fi 7 chip…
“FastConnect 7800 leads the industry with the introduction of High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link technology — a premium feature for Wi-Fi 7 networks that unlocks the vast potential of multiple connections 5 GHz and 6 GHz to deliver the highest throughput and lowest sustained latency, while reserving the 2.4 GHz spectrum for high-traffic Bluetooth and low-bandwidth Wi-Fi,” Qulacomm writes.
In addition, the FastConnect 7800 chip is Bluetooth 5.3 compatible. Compatible Bluetooth devices will be able to stream immersive, high-bandwidth music using Snapdragon audio, while ensuring robust and responsive connections to game controllers and/or other input devices, according to the same. Press release.
And soon 6G!
Huawei and tête, OEMs said 6G was the next step in performance. These new technologies should make it possible to move from gigabit to terabit capacities and achieve response times of less than a millisecond. To see if it really works… Something to imagine perhaps new applications… Which ones? Answer probably in 2028…
In addition, 6G had to be tailored to drastically improve the energy efficiency of connectivity infrastructures in order to cope with the strong growth in traffic. To achieve this goal, various research and development programs have been launched around the world, including under the leadership of Nokia. To be continued, even if all this loses more and more meaning when you know the reliability of a good old optical fiber…
Xavier Studer