List of 802.11ac Hardware

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For an automatically updated (and more up to date) list of devices currently in WikiDevi
supporting 802.11ac, see the automatically updated tables on this page.

note: the older table format is viewable on this older page revision

See 802.11ac on Wikipedia for considerably more information on the standard.

It's basically super-802.11n at 5GHz with 80Mhz or 160Mhz wide channels.

List of 802.11ac Hardware

Access Points

Wireless Routers

Travel Routers

4G LTE Routers

Media Bridges, Wireless Bridges

Repeaters, Range Extenders

Gateways

Smart Home Hubs, IoT Hubs

Media Streamers

Media Players

Set Top Boxs

NAS

PowerLine

Wireless Embedded Boards

Wireless Systems

Wireless Adapters

Mobile general purpose computers (non-PC)

Smartphones
Tablet computers
Laptops

Chipsets

Vendor Part # Interface Streams LDPC TxBF 256-
QAM
Notes First seen
(FCC)
Adapters Systems PPage
/ PR
Broadcom
Broadcom BCM4335 SDIO / PCIe
/ HSIC
1 Y Y Y BT 4.0 + FM rec. 2013-02-20 0 devices 9 devices PPage
PR
Broadcom BCM4350 SDIO / PCIe 2 Y Y Y incl. BT 4.0 2015-08-25 4 devices 1 devices PR
Broadcom BCM4352 PCIe 2.0 2 Y Y Y 2012-05-16 14 devices 29 devices PPage
PR
Broadcom BCM43516 USB 2.0 1 ? ? ? 0 devices 0 devices PPage
PR
Broadcom BCM43526 USB 2.0 2 ? ? ? 2012-08-20 10 devices 4 devices PPage
PR
Broadcom BCM43556 USB 3.0 2 ? ? ? 0 devices 0 devices PR
Broadcom BCM43558 USB 3.0 2 ? ? ? incl. BT 4.0 0 devices 0 devices PR
Broadcom BCM43569 USB 3.0 2 ? ? ? int. BT 4.1 2015-01-22 3 devices 4 devices PR
Broadcom BCM4360 PCIe 2.0 3 Y Y Y 2012-04-20 17 devices 129 devices PPage
PR
Broadcom BCM43602 PCIe 2.0 3 Y Y Y pin w/ BCM4360,
FullMAC
2014-06-02 5 devices 36 devices PR
Broadcom BCM43460 PCIe 2.0 (prob.) 3 Y Y Y enterprise
targeted
2013-04-18 3 devices 17 devices PPage
PR
Intel
Intel 3160
series
PCIe 1 ? ? Y incl. BT 4.0
Wilkins Peak 1
Intel 7260
series
PCIe 2 ? ? Y incl. BT 4.0
Wilkins Peak 2
Marvell
Marvell 88W8897 SDIO / PCIe
/ USB 2.0 /.
2 Y Y Y BT 4.0 + NFC 2014-02-26 4 devices 11 devices PPage
PR
Marvell 88W8864 PCIe 2.0 3 Y Y Y 2013-08-15 0 devices 6 devices PPage
PR, PBrief
MediaTek
MediaTek MT7610E PCIe 1 ? ? ? 2013-03-05 1 devices 51Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
MediaTek MT7610U USB 2.0 1 ? ? ? 2013-02-19 31 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
MediaTek MT7612E PCIe 2.0 2 Y Y Y 2013-12-11 4 devices 66Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
MediaTek MT7612U USB 3.0 2 Y Y Y 2014-06-25 9 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
MediaTek MT6630 dunno 2 ? ? ? BT 4.1 + FM tr.
w/ RDS/RBDS
0 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
MediaTek MT7650 dunno 1 ? Y Y 0 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm Atheros
Qualcomm
Atheros
WCN3680 dunno 1 Y Y Y incl. BT 4.0
+ FM rec.
2014-06-18 0 devices 1Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9860 PCIe 3 Y ? Y incl. BT 4.0 0 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9862 PCIe 2 Y ? Y incl. BT4.0 2013-07-22 2 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9882 PCIe 1.1 2 Y ? Y consumer
targeted
2013-05-10 10 devices 54Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9892 PCIe 1.1 2 Y ? Y enterprise
targeted
2015-05-21 5 devices 2Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9880 PCIe 1.1 3 Y ? Y consumer targeted
support ath10k
2013-03-29 25 devices 95Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9890 PCIe 1.1 3 Y ? Y enterprise
targeted
2013-08-29 0 devices 12Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9980 PCIe, prob. 4 Y ? Y MU-MIMO, router +
gateway targeted
2015-04-10 6 devices 23Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
SNB
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9982 PCIe, prob. 3 Y ? Y router +
gateway targeted
2015-11-12 1 devices 4Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
SNB
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9990 PCIe, prob. 4 Y ? Y MU-MIMO,
enterprise targeted
2015-06-24 3 devices 4Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
SNB
Qualcomm
Atheros
QCA9992 PCIe, prob. 3 Y ? Y enterprise
targeted
2018-01-13 0 devices 2Empty strings are not accepted. devices PR
SNB
Quantenna
Quantenna QAC2300 PCIe 4 Y Y Y 0 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices PBrief
(archive)
Quantenna QSR1000 dunno 4 ? ? ? MU-MIMO 0 devices 1Empty strings are not accepted. devices PPage
.
Realtek
Realtek RTL8811AU USB 2.0 1 ? ? ? 2013-04-30 33 devices 1Empty strings are not accepted. devices
Realtek RTL8812AE PCIe 1.1 2 Y Y Y 2013-01-04 15 devices 2Empty strings are not accepted. devices
Realtek RTL8812AR PCIe
(assumed 1.1)
2 ? ? ? 2012-11-29 1 devices 47Empty strings are not accepted. devices
Realtek RTL8812AU USB 3.0 2 ? ? ? 2012-12-19 59 devices 0Empty strings are not accepted. devices
Redpine Signals
Redpine
Signals
RS9117 SDIO 1 Y ? Y PBrief
Redpine
Signals
RS9333 PCIe/USB2.0
/ SDIO 3.0
3 Y ? Y PBrief

The previous (non-tabled) chipset section is accessible in this page's history.

802.11ac ready boards (addl. module required)

Device Type PHY modes Manuf. CPU1 FLA1 RAM1 WI1 WI2 Switch Ethernet Expan. USB FCC date Amazon
Compex WPJ344 (WPJ344HV) wireless embedded board

general purpose

abgn Compex
CoO: Sample PRC Flag.png
Atheros
AR9344
@ 560 MHz

1 cores
16 MiB16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br /> 128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br /> Atheros
AR9344
2x2:2, abgn
Ant. conn: U.FL
1GbE
2 LAN
Mini PCIe 2013-01-01 (non-FCC, est. rel)

Other

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See also