By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-01-06 14:00:00
Broadcom Inc. today debuted a trio of chips designed to power wireless access points based on the upcoming Wi-Fi 8 standard.
The current version of the networking technology, Wi-Fi 7, was developed mainly with performance in mind. It provides more than quadruple the peak throughput of the previous iteration. Wi-Fi 8, in contrast, will put the emphasis on improving connection reliability. That will make it more suitable for use in industrial environments such as plants.
Factory robots often rely on a local Wi-Fi network to exchange data with one another. When a robot travels from one section of a facility to another, it moves outside the range of the Wi-Fi access point that it originally used to transmit data and moves into the range of a different access point. That switch, which is known as roaming, often causes connection issues.
Wi-Fi 8 avoids roaming-related Wi-Fi hiccups using a technology called SMD. Currently, wireless devices implement roaming by disconnecting from…
