At this week’s CES in Las Vegas, Taiwanese firm MediaTek is announcing the latest chipset in the Genio platform for IoT devices.

The octa-core Genio 700 is for smart home, smart retail and industrial IoT products. The chipset is being featured as part of a demo on MediaTek’s stand.

With a focus on power efficiency, the Genio 700 is a N6 6nm IoT chipset with two Arm A78 cores running at 2.2GHz and six Arm A55 cores at 2.0GHz while providing a 4.0Tops AI accelerator. It comes with support for FHD60+4K60 display, as well as an ISP for better images.

“When we launched the Genio family of IoT products last year, we designed the platform with the scalability and development support that brands need, paving the way for opportunities to continue expanding,” said Richard Lu, vice president of MediaTek’s IoT business unit. “With a focus on industrial and smart-home products, the Genio 700 is a perfect natural addition to the line to ensure we can provide the widest range of support possible to our customers.”

The Genio 700 SDK lets designers customise products using Yocto Linux, Ubuntu and Android. With this support, users can develop their own products with little effort, regardless of application type.

It supports high-speed interfaces, including PCIe 2.0, USB 3.2 Gen1 and Mipi-CSI for a camera. Dual display support covers FHD60+4K60 with AV1, VP9, H.265 and H.264 video decode.

There is also support for industrial grade design and a wide temperature range with ten years longevity.

Arm SystemReady certification provides a standard and easy way to integrate the platform, and Arm PSA certification increases security.

• MediaTek has completed interoperability testing for automated frequency coordination (AFC) on its Filogic Wifi 7 and 6E chips, in collaboration with Federated Wireless.

Federated Wireless is conditionally approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate an AFC system, which manages access to spectrum by standard-power indoor and outdoor unlicensed devices in the 6GHz band.

An AFC system enables standard power operation for indoor and outdoor unlicensed devices, such as 5G CPEs, fibre gateways and Ethernet gateways, to transmit over 850MHz of spectrum in the 6GHz band. Doing so provides wifi products with improved range, faster connectivity and more capacity.

“Our leadership in wifi technology would not be complete without ensuring our customers have easy access to AFC,” said Alan Hsu, corporate vice president at MediaTek. “We are very happy to partner with Federated Wireless and to have finished an extensive series of integration testing. Our Filogic Wifi 7 and 6E chips, including the CES 2023 Innovation Award-winning Filogic 880, will soon support standard power operation in the 6GHz spectrum for companies producing wifi devices.”

MediaTek and Federated Wireless successfully completed AFC device-to-AFC system interoperability testing consisting of a set of positive and negative tests drawn from the Wifi Alliance (WFA) AFC certification specification. The positive tests included verifying the proper AFC calculation and response of spectrum availability at several locations. The negative tests included verifying proper AFC error handling.

In addition, all tests used security measures that went above and beyond those specified by the WFA’s SDI standard device interface requirement documentation, ensuring privacy and data security across all AFC communications.

“We are proud to partner with MediaTek to perform these critical interoperability tests to ensure that the commercial industry is ready for standard power device operations to begin,” said Kurt Schaubach, chief technology officer at Federated Wireless. “Federated Wireless prides itself on being a premier collaborator with our partners and customers interested in spectrum sharing.”

The completion of these interoperability tests removes the final roadblock for customers to start using Federated Wireless’ AFC system on MediaTek Filogic Wifi 7 and 6E chips. They can begin launching standard power indoor and outdoor device operations through an AFC system upon full approval by the FCC.