Broadcom Corporation has announced BCM4354, the first 5G WiFi (802.11ac) 2×2 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system-on-a-chip (SoC) for smartphones at the MWC 2014 in Barcelona. This offer better Wi-Fi performance, up to 25% power compared to the 1×1 MIMO devices used in smartphones, says Broadcom. This offers faster uploads and downloads even in crowded places.
It has Broadcom’s Transmit Beamforming (TxBF) technology to improve rate over range performance in congested environments for data-intense applications. A variant of the Broadcom’s BCM4354 SoC supports Rezence wireless power technology, developed by the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP).
Highlights of Broadcom BCM4354 SoC
- Dual-band combo chip for smartphones and tablet
- Supports 5G Wi-Fi 2×2 MIMO
- Bluetooth (BT) 4.1/BLE
- Rezence wireless charging support and FM radio receiver
- 867 Mbps PHY rate/80MHz channel bandwidth
- SDIO 3.0 and low-power PCIe host interfaces for WLAN; UART and USB for BT
- Android, Windows and Chrome-based operating systems support
The BCM4354 is now in production and smartphone equipped with the chip would be available this quarter, with mainstream availability by summer.