Breaking the monopoly of Broadcom, it is reported that MediaTek has won orders from several mobile / tablet / notebook manufacturers Wi-Fi 7.
CTOnews.com December 11 news, according to Taiwan's "Economic Daily" reported today, Wi-Fi 7 related products will burst next year, MediaTek won the global tablet leading American brand, Intel laptop platform and the major mobile phone manufacturers Wi-Fi 7 big order, which will break Broadcom's long-term monopoly in the Wi-Fi chip market.
Reported that MediaTek made relatively slow progress in the Wi-Fi market in the past, and began to "accelerate the whip" after entering the Wi-Fi 6 generation, and tried to "overtake" in the Wi-Fi 7 generation, and there were also rumors that MediaTek had invested a thousand-person R & D team to enter the Wi-Fi 7 market. At the beginning of 2022, MediaTek led the market to launch the Wi-Fi 7 product line, and in the second quarter of this year, there was news of entering the high-end router and enterprise market.
According to the Economic Daily, citing industry sources, MediaTek is expected to expand next year to win orders for Wi-Fi 7 main chips from mainland mobile phone brands, Intel notebook platforms and global tablet leading American brands, and shipments will jump quarter by quarter, breaking the previous market pattern of Wi-Fi chips monopolized by Broadcom, catching up with competitors Qualcomm and becoming the top three suppliers in the global Wi-Fi chip market.
According to CTOnews.com, MediaTek released Filogic 360 and Filogic 860 Wi-Fi 7 chips last month. The devices carrying the two chips have entered mass production and will be on the shelves in mid-2024.
The Filogic 860is a stripped-down version of the flagship Filogic 880s that can be used on routers with wireless speeds up to 7.2Gbps, support for 1x 10 Gbps, 1x 2.5 Gbps, and 4x 1 Gbps wired ports, 3 Cortex-A78 cores (peak 1.8 GHz), and NPU.
Filogic360 is also a stripped-down version of Filogic 380. it can be used in terminal devices such as mobile phones and computers. It has a wireless transmission speed of up to 2.9Gbps, supports Bluetooth 5.4.It can provide LE audio support for notebook computers.