Despite decades of R&D investments, a fully integrated, CMOS-SOI RF front-end for high-performance Wi-Fi applications has remained elusive. It’s the RFFE holy grail.
Our new technical white paper, “CMOS-SOI vs. GaAs Power Amplifiers for Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 8 RF Front-Ends,” by our CEO/CTO Dr. Ali Arya Fard, explains why. It covers the fundamental physical, materials, circuit-level and systemic barriers that historically prevented CMOS-SOI power amplifiers from displacing GaAs-based solutions in consumer and enterprise Wi-Fi front-ends.
The 24-page paper also includes the breakthrough that changes the equation (see pg. 13): a silicon-proven monolithic CMOS-SOI front-end chipset that:
✅ Meets and exceeds Wi-Fi 7 performance requirements without digital pre-distortion correction
✅ Outperforms the incumbent GaAs solutions under equivalent operating conditions
✅ Uniquely maintains linearity and efficiency under the dynamic antenna impedance conditions of real-world use, holding EVM within 1 dB at 3:1 VSWR where incumbent GaAs degrades by up to 7 dB
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