NXP’s new tri-radio chip makes it easy to add Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and Thread to smart home gadgets
Imagine these devices have NXP's new IW612 SoC | Image: NXP NXP has a new tri-radio SoC that it's announcing at CES 2022 that's designed to serve as a silver bullet for comprehensive smart home connectivity in a single chip, offering out-of-the-box support for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth LE 5.2, and 802.15.4 (i.e., Thread) all at once.
The idea is that hardware manufacturers building new smart home devices - and especially ones building routers, smart speakers, and hubs that are designed to serve as bridges between different radio standards like Wi-Fi and Thread - can now just integrate a single chipset solution to their products.
That's especially critical with the upcoming launch of the new Matter standard later in 2022, which aims to provide a single standard to connect all the different smart home...