Intel “expects it to be in key markets by 2025,” according to Eric McLaughlin, vice president of Intel’s wireless solutions division, who attended a press conference in the Asia-Pacific region. This suggests that we may see competitors’ products well ahead of Intel in notebooks and PCs by the end of 2024, as Broadcom, MediaTek and Qualcomm have announced multiple products.
But the WiFi 7 standard is only in the late stages of development, with another round of draft hardware specifications coming later this year or next, with the final WiFi 7 specification not expected to be ratified until 2024. So Intel’s thinking is that it would rather be a little later than its competitors, but wants to launch a fully functional product.
Intel’s offering supports speeds up to 5.8GHz, although this will use 320MHz wide channels and4KQAM means these speeds will be limited to distancesroutera few meters away.
In the development process of WiFi equipment, there is often a dark history of weird compatibility problems between different brands. Even the problem is so serious that returning to the old standard cannot solve the problem. It is always a hassle for consumers. I hope WiFi 7 will not. Repeat history.
