The first gigabit Wi-Fi chip for consumer devices is here

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Quantenna, a startup building chips for sending massive data over Wi-Fi, has built the first gigabit chip for Wi-Fi networks and devices.

Quantenna, which first got started delivering chips to boost in-home Wi-Fi to meet the demands of high-bandwidth applications, said that its latest chip is available now for select customers for use in routers, home gateways and even consumer gadgets. Products containing the chips could hit the market in 2012. The chips use a combination of four antennas on sending and receiving radios to deliver gigabit speeds under the planned 802.11ac standard. By using 4×4 MIMO and an ability to cover both the 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz Wi-Fi frequencies, Quantenna says it can deliver 2 Gbps, which is awesomely fast, but pretty useless for most homes and devices today considering our home broadband speeds are much slower.


The first gigabit Wi-Fi chip for consumer devices is here