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Broadcom announced a new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip today that the manufacturer claims will double wireless networking performance of high-end smartphones and tablets. The hardware vendor claims that users spend an estimated four to five hours everyday on Wi-Fi, and that with the new chipset, they will be able to download and stream content twice as fast as current-gen devices and with less lag.
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) announced the BCM4358 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip on 3 September 2014 from Irvine, California, claiming it will double wireless networking performance for high-end smartphones and tablets[1][2][3]
Broadcom claims users spend an estimated four to five hours every day on Wi-Fi - attributed to ABI Research, August 2014 - and that they will download and stream content twice as fast as current-generation devices and with less lag[1][2][3]
Availability: the BCM4358 is "now in production", with consumer devices carrying it due "later this quarter", that is shipping in mobile devices available in Q3 2014[1][2][3]
David Recker, Broadcom Senior Director of Wireless Connectivity, and Philip Solis, Research Director at ABI Research, are quoted in the announcement and in VentureBeat's report, which adds the hedge "Or so the company hopes" to the doubling claim[2][3]
Notable features
It is described as the highest-performing 5G 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip on the market and a second-generation 2x2 MIMO combo[1][2][3]
Headline figures: 650 Mbps Wi-Fi data throughput, an 867 Mbps PHY rate on an 80MHz channel, 50 percent better coexistence with Bluetooth, and indoor location accuracy down to one meter[1][2]
Other features listed: transmit beamforming, "which pinpoints a device's location within a network to provide better throughput to that location", LDPC, TurboQAM for the highest 2.4 GHz data rate, RTT-based indoor location, an integrated PA, LNA and TR switch, a low power PCIe host interface for WLAN with UART for Bluetooth, and the first Angle-of-Arrival direction finding on a smartphone; it supports Android, Windows and Chrome[1][2]
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prnewswire.com· Published Sep 3, 2014· 2% of score
Broadcom's own PR Newswire release, dated September 3, 2014, announces the BCM4358 combo chip claiming it will 'double wireless networking performance,' exactly matching the pin's stored September 3-4, 2014 date.
venturebeat.com· Published Sep 3, 2014· 2% of score
VentureBeat independently corroborates the same September 3, 2014 unveiling of Broadcom's BCM4358 chip, quoting an executive that '5G WiFi and 2x2 MIMO unlocks the full potential of today's smartphones and tablets.'
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