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Welcome to The Long View—where we peruse the news of the week and strip it to the essentials. Let’s work out what really matters.

This week: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality “is” failing, and what Severance tells us about The Great Resignation.

1. New, Shiny 802.11be is Better, Stronger, Faster

First up this week: Broadcom claims it’s first out the gate with chips for the new Wi-Fi 7 standard (although “draft standard” is more accurate). 802.11be kit should be faster and more deterministic, suffer less from interference and improve latency. Mediatek and Qualcomm are also expected to launch silicon this year.

Analysis: It’s not just about speed

So-called “extremely high throughput” isn’t the only benefit here. Combining non-contiguous channels—even across three different bands—and supporting 16 spatial streams should make for huge quality improvements in densely populated areas.

Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be), a next-generation wireless standard … is officially off the ground (sort of) with Broadcom sampling complete end-to-end chipset solutions. … Don’t feel bad if you’re overwhelmed by all the wireless standards in the wild. It wasn’t that long ago when … 802.11ac was king of the hill, then came Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and, not too long after, Wi-Fi 6E … to take advantage of the 6GHz spectrum.
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Part of the benefit of Wi-Fi 7 is it theoretically supports up to around 46Gbps of throughput, versus 9.6Gbps for Wi-Fi 6/6E. [And it] introduces a technology called...

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