WiFi 6 portfolio accelerates adoption across IoT

NXP’s expanded WiFi 6 portfolio represents the company’s new end-to-end vision and differentiated technology approach that is designed to help usher in an era of connectivity innovation for automotive, access, mobile and Industrial and IoT markets.

WiFi 6 delivers a wealth of additional connectivity improvements, including symmetric multi-gigabit uploads and downloads, dramatically lower latency, increased capacity, and improved power efficiency across applications. These technical advancements have so far been limited to premium products.

With NXP’s broad portfolio, these benefits are now available for large-scale deployment across multiple markets, enabling products with today’s most advanced WiFi capabilities, including:

• Up to four times performance improvement
• Greater range
• Improved battery life
• Greater connection reliability

“To deliver WiFi 6 to broader markets, OEMs need WiFi 6 options that scale to their needs. They need a family of products that matches the performance and cost needs of their different market segments,” said Rafael Sotomayor, Senior Vice President of Security and Connectivity at NXP. “With NXP’s latest connectivity solutions, we are making it easier for our customers to invest in our WiFi 6 platform to add WiFi 6 to smart homes, connected cars, and industrial machinery. We are excited to see these markets reap the networking benefit of WiFi 6.”

NXP WiFi 6 portfolio highlights:

• Performance leading 4x4 and 8x8-stream solutions with integrated Bluetooth 5 for home and enterprise access solutions (88W9064, 88W9068)
• Concurrent Dual WiFi 2x2+2x2 + Bluetooth 5 AEC-Q100 qualified solutions purpose-built for the highest performance infotainment and telematics automotive applications (88Q9098)
• Concurrent Dual WiFi 2x2+2x2 + Bluetooth 5 solutions that provide a best-in-class offering for multimedia streaming and consumer access applications (88W9098)
• IoT-focused 2x2 WiFi 6 + Bluetooth 5 optimized for cost and power
• NXP’s RF front-end solutions portfolio based on Silicon Germanium (SiGe) can scale WiFi 6 capabilities from low-to-high-end applications, including 1x1, 2x2, 4x4 and 8x8 MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) solutions and is packaged in an ultra-compact 3x4mm module optimized for the mobile solutions.

Andrew Zignani, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Wireless Connectivity Principal Analyst at ABI Research, said: “To date, the adoption of WiFi 6 has predominantly been driven by smartphones. However, we expect significant traction to build within the IoT, infrastructure, and automotive markets throughout 2020 and beyond.

“This growth will be further driven by power- and cost-optimized chipsets such as NXP’s latest offerings, which will increase the viability of WiFi for these other applications and help open up all new opportunities for the technology.”