MWC 2024 | Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto Connectivity Platform upgrade touted to bring Wi-Fi 7 to next-gen cars

Qualcomm has confirmed that it is nearly ready to unleash the tech necessary to put the world's first cars with Wi-Fi 7 on the road, in the form of a chipset called the QCA6797AQ.

Touted as the "industry's first Automotive Grade Wi-Fi 7 Access Point", it is rated to confer 320MHz-channel bandwidth on next-gen vehicles.

The Qualcomm QCA6797AQ may also help cars support the Multi-link Multi-Radio (MLMR), High Band Simultaneous (HBS) and 4K Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (4K-QAM) features necessary for Wi-Fi 7's class-leading reliability, speed and smoothness.

Those properties might, as Qualcomm indicates, be crucial for the wireless connection of individual in-car modules and components on which automotive safety, infotainment, security or even VR/AR systems are based, especially as they become ever more powerful, complex and sophisticated in the future.

The QCA6797AQ will make a formal debut as one of the latest additions to Qualcomm's Snapdragon Auto Connectivity portfolio of platforms as part of its MWC Barcelona showcase at the end of February 2024.

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