Matter - smart home connectivity standard (formerly Project CHIP)

One of Broadcom’s 2nd Gen Wi-Fi 7 access point SoCs integrate Thread, Bluetooth LE, and Zigbee. It also claims to support Matter. Unfortunately, it’s the enterprise / SMB model.

For these three 2nd Gen chips (all have Wi-Fi 7), Broadcom added some IoT radios:

  • BCM6765 Residential AP SoC: no IoT radios added :frowning:
  • BCM47722 Enterprise / SMB AP SoC: Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth (“and Matter protocol”)
  • BCM4390 Client SoC: Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth

Perhaps they think consumers already have enough Thread Border Routers. Still quite early days for Wi-Fi 7, but glad Broadcom added IoT radios to some AP SoCs. Now just if they’ll do the same for consumers, heh.