Broadcom today announced a powerful 5G WiFi (802.11ac) 2x2 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) combo chip for mobile devices. The BCM4358 delivers high throughput, Bluetooth co-existence performance and indoor location accuracy. With 650 Mbps Wi-Fi data throughput and 50 percent better coexistence performance with Bluetooth, users can download content two times faster, stream videos with less buffering and connect to multiple Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices concurrently (e.g. listen to music while playing a game) without interference issues.

Key Features

• 867 Mbps PHY rate/80MHz channel bandwidth
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth coexistence performance
• Low power PCIe host interface for WLAN; UART for Bluetooth
• Combines two 802.11ac streams at 80MHz channel bandwidth via PCIe interface
• Support for Android, Windows and Chrome operating systems
• Integrated Power Amplifier (PA), Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) and internal TR switch
• Transmit beamforming and Low Density Parity Check Codes (LDPC)
• High accuracy Round Trip Time (RTT) based indoor location technology
• Broadcom TurboQAM implements the highest data rate in 2.4 GHz
• First to enable Angle-of-Arrival direction finding technology on smartphone
  

The BCM4358 is now in production and will be shipping in mobile devices available in Q3 2014.