Comment on Is Intel gatekeeping WiFi 7? A very quick look at the Intel BE200.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 4 months agoHonestly, I don’t know how the BE200 works
My guess after skimming this thread:
Bare bones radio interface with all the smarts being done by CPU extensions and coprocessors in your existing chipset. If you don’t have the extensions/coprocessors, no deal.
Very similar to Intel’s video decoding enhancements where they stack a bunch of special instructions and hardware in the CPU to take the load off software video decoding.
HelloHotel@lemm.ee 4 months ago
So if I understand this right, that means you already have wifi7 support, you just need to unlock it with the m.2 shaped key.