By Joe Osborne
Intel has officially killed its WiGig line of products in favor of dedicating the wireless connectivity technology to virtual reality (VR) headsets, Anandtech reports.
This means that Intel will soon no longer sell 802.11d radio cards, antennae and sinks, with End of Life (EOL) programs in place for each. Shipments of these parts will stop before the end of 2017, December 29 to be exact.
Such a short EOL plan indicates that the products weren’t very popular to begin with. Regardless, Intel intends to support the WiGig products it has already shipped for the foreseeable future.
For those out of the loop, WiGig is Intel’s fancy name for the short-range 802.11d connectivity standard, which operates over the 60GHz frequency. The technology allows for wireless docking and connectivity of devices with speeds that come close to that of USB 3.1 Type-C and Thunderbolt 3 hard line connections.
However, being a short-range signal, WiGig requires connected devices to be awfully close and unimpeded by physical objects, like walls or floors. When you can get faster and more reliable connectivity from a hard-line Thunderbolt 3 connection, the point becomes rather moot.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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