Nordic Semiconductor, the Norway based company, the manufacturer of several low power, Wireless Devices for many years. There products includes nRF24L01,nRF51 which was very popular and nrf52 series,nRF53 supporting Bluetooth communication. The nrf52 and nrf53 also supports Multiple Protcols like Thread, zigbee etc. Nordic has also released the product in the cellular communication domain like Nrf91.
Now the Nordic semiconductor has released their new product nrf7002 which supports WI-FI 6 protocol. This release marks the entry of Nordic Semiconductor company into the WI-FI arena. This chip provides seamless WI-FI connectivity with WI-FI based locationing. It is also called Companion IC as it is designed to work with the nRF52 and nRF53 Soc which supports Bluetooth Low energy and nRF91 series supporting cellular communication. It can support non-Nordic devices. It is available in QFN package with size 6x6 mm It is the first WI-FI product which is ultra low power and supports WI-FI 6 protocol.
As the nRF7002 IC supports WI-FI 6 protocol, it can be be seamlessly used in Matter Protocol alongside the nRF 52 and nNF53 series Socs, In case of Matter protocol Bluetooth low energy protocol is used for commissioning, thread for mesh communication and WI-FI for Cloud communication. So now, Nordic has all the required products required for Matter in their product portfolio.The Matter protocol is supported by the big companies like Samsung,Amazo,Google, Nordic Semiconductors etc. The Matter protocol will address the problem of inter operability for the IOT based products.
As the nRF7002 chip supports WI-FI 6 protocol. So it provides all the advantages of the WI-FI 6 like two bands 2,4 Ghz and 5 Ghz which provides good bandwidth available for the communication. As WI-FI 6additional support for WAPS3 which security algorithm difficult to break.
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