Edgewater Wireless Systems Selects Synopsys As Core Vendor In Its Next-Gen Wi-Fi8-Ready Spectrum Slicing Silicon Program

Edgewater, a Silicon Catalyst portfolio company, expands access to leading-edge design tools to accelerate next-generation Wi-Fi silicon roadmap

Highlights:

• Analysts' forecasts project the global Wi-Fi chipset market will reach the mid-US$36B1 range by 2034, underscoring accelerating demand for next-generation Wi-Fi silicon across consumer, enterprise and industrial markets.
• As Wi-Fi becomes the dominant "last-meter" connectivity layer, reliability – not just peak speed – is becoming the defining purchasing driver, with Wi-Fi8 (Ultra High Reliability / UHR) targeting measurable improvements in real-world throughput, worst-cast latency and packet loss.
• Edgewater Wireless, a Silicon Catalyst portfolio company, is fast-tracking its Wi-Fi8 Spectrum Slicing™ silicon roadmap by leveraging the incubator's world-class semiconductor innovation ecosystem.
• The company has selected Synopsys Cloud, a chip design automation platform that delivers a comprehensive EDA-as-a-Service design environment, as a core element of its next-generation Wi-Fi8-ready spectrum slicing silicon design and verification flows.
• Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS), the global leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, provides Edgewater with proven, production-grade tools that help accelerate time-to-tape-out, enhance design quality, and reduce development risk.

Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (TSXV:YFI) (OTC:KPIFF), the industry pioneer of AI-powered Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing™ technology for residential, enterprise and Industrial IoT markets, today announced that it has selected Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) as a core vendor in its next-generation Wi-Fi8-ready spectrum slicing silicon program.