Thursday, August 4th 2022
Intel WiFi 7 Products to be Unveiled in 2024 with Speeds of up to 5.8 Gbps
Although Intel threw in the towel and gave up on making routers and gateways back in 2020, the company is still the world's largest manufacturer of WiFi modules for computers. Now news out of Korea suggests that Intel's first WiFi 7 products will be launched in 2024, about a year after the expected availability of the first WiFi 7 routers and gateways. That said, based on a quote from Eric McLaughlin, vice president of Intel's wireless solutions division, who attended an unspecified press conference in the APAC region, Intel "expect it to appear in major markets in 2025." This suggests that it'll be a late 2024 launch and we might see competitors' products in notebooks and PCs way ahead of Intel this time around.
That said, the WiFi 7 standard is currently only in the late stages of development, despite Broadcom, MediaTek and Qualcomm having announced multiple products already. It's likely we'll see another round of draft spec hardware launching either later this year, or next year, with the final WiFi 7 spec not expected to be ratified until 2024. As such, Intel may be later than its competitors, but should hopefully launch a feature complete product. Intel's products should support speeds of up to 5.8 GHz, although this would be using a 320 MHz wide channel and 4K QAM, which means these speeds will be limited to a few meters from a router. WiFi devices have a history of quirky issues between brands, even if none of them have been so severe that a fallback to an older standard hasn't solved the problem, but it's still been a hassle for consumers. Hopefully WiFi 7 won't repeat history, but we wouldn't place a bet on it.
Sources:
ET News Korea, via Tom's Hardware
That said, the WiFi 7 standard is currently only in the late stages of development, despite Broadcom, MediaTek and Qualcomm having announced multiple products already. It's likely we'll see another round of draft spec hardware launching either later this year, or next year, with the final WiFi 7 spec not expected to be ratified until 2024. As such, Intel may be later than its competitors, but should hopefully launch a feature complete product. Intel's products should support speeds of up to 5.8 GHz, although this would be using a 320 MHz wide channel and 4K QAM, which means these speeds will be limited to a few meters from a router. WiFi devices have a history of quirky issues between brands, even if none of them have been so severe that a fallback to an older standard hasn't solved the problem, but it's still been a hassle for consumers. Hopefully WiFi 7 won't repeat history, but we wouldn't place a bet on it.
19 Comments on Intel WiFi 7 Products to be Unveiled in 2024 with Speeds of up to 5.8 Gbps
Now all we need is a isp to crank it up without wanting a kidney :laugh:
Could be related to your router hardware, as Intel seems to have a history of having issues with certain router hardware, especially from Broadcom.
Until recently, I've only ever had Qualcomm based hardware when it comes to routers and AP's at home.
Qualcomm f-ed up so badly they had to do a chip respin on their WiFi radios, yet TP-Link had already sold a product with those radios and they were unfixable. TP-Link did what they always do, a new hardware revision and never updated the old product again...
I pay $150 for 1.2Gbps through Xfinity
This is what AT&T offers which I'm planning to switch too
AT&T is the freaking devil company that doesn't know what price contracts are and raises the price a little every month so no thanks been there done that and never again for any service.
At least xfinity price is the exact same every month so yes I do use them now.
Only free cell phone I've ever gotten to.
No where near 150.us a month though for 900mbps
IMHO, for single family homes and small offices this is all overkill. We need stable reliable connectivity, low latency, not huge (unrealistic) speeds.
Btw, typo there : "Intel's products should support speeds of up to 5.8 GHz" (probably Gbps)