Nordic Semiconductor Announces Its First Wi-Fi Chip

Following the acquisition of the Wi-Fi development team, core Wi-Fi expertise, and Wi-Fi IP tech assets of Imagination Technologies Group in 2020, Nordic Semiconductor announced its entry into the Wi-Fi wireless market with the introduction of the nRF7002, an ultra-low power, dual-band Wi-Fi 6 companion IC. The launch enables Nordic Semiconductor to offer all three of the world’s most popular wireless connectivity technologies: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cellular, paving the way for new market opportunities.

Laird Connectivity partnered with Packetcraft to offer a complete Bluetooth LE Audio evaluation kit using Laird's BL5340 Bluetooth 5.2 development boards, a custom audio interface board, and Packetcraft’s comprehensive software solution for LE Audio. This development solution is ideal for developers looking to evaluate LE Audio for emerging next generation Bluetooth LE Audio applications, such as wireless microphones, broadcast audio for infrastructure, and much more.

Rohde & Schwarz joined the FiRa Consortium as an associate member. FiRa, short for "fine ranging," is an organization dedicated to growing the UWB ecosystem by ensuring interoperability between multiple devices through compliance and certification programs. By joining the FiRa Consortium, Rohde & Schwarz contributes to the organization’s efforts to establish a certification program for UWB devices. Rohde & Schwarz brings along a broad expertise in mobile device testing and certification

Context-aware devices, such as the embedded smartphone keyboards, have been around for some time, though in a very limited form. By learning regularly used names, locations and phrases, they seem to know your next move, that is, predictive text. Similarly, but at a higher level, the next generation of smart audio devices will combine user-specific data, such as location, preferences and other device sensor data, including audio, to better serve the user.