Qualcomm is targeting WiGig to become a standard feature on smartphones and tablets, and betting on the trend that Wi-Fi offloading will experience rapid growth as mobile data traffic grows tremendously.
Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of Wilocity, Israel based technology firm that produces WiGig, a new 60GHz multi-Gigabit Wi-Fi chipset based on IEEE 802.11ad standard that is 10X faster than the existing Wi-Fi standards.
Qualcomm is rolling out WiGig with Wi-Fi combined 3-band Wi-Fi radio, 802.11ad operating in the 60 GHz spectrum band along with 802.11ac that operates in the 5 GHz band and 802.11b/g/n in the 2.4 GHz band, in the upcoming Snapdragon 810. This enables applications such as 4k video streaming, peer-to-peer content sharing, networking, wireless docking, and backing up of entire media libraries in seconds.
"The Wi-Fi Alliance is pleased to see Qualcomm drive WiGig technology more broadly into the industry,”This development indicates the industry and market’s progress toward wide adoption of 60 GHz technology. WiGig CERTIFIED™ will extend the Wi-Fi Alliance vision for seamless connectivity and enable new use cases.”
- Edgar Figueroa, President and CEO, Wi-Fi Alliance
"Qualcomm is continually innovating and investing in leadership technologies to drive value for our customers while creating new growth opportunities for our mobile, computing and networking platforms. WiGig will play an important role in Qualcomm’s strategy to address consumers’ increasingly sophisticated smartphone, tablet and computing requirements to support applications—such as immediate streaming of 4K video and high throughput peer-to-peer communication to enable the next generation of social interactions between users sharing content.”
- Amir Faintuch, President, Qualcomm Atheros
