""What you're going to see is that we can get better rate at a given range. What I mean by that is, if you take an access point (AP) and a Wi-Fi 7 device, and you get a given data rate, then you replace that with a Wi-Fi 8 device, you'll be able to get a higher data rate at that same location, at that same range.""
"Cordeiro says that Intel sees Wi-Fi 8 as the "connective technology for the AI era," one where in the not-too-distant future, everyone will have massive amounts of compute and storage available to them over the network, and this means that you can't allow the wireless connection to become the bottleneck to accessing all those resources. "So you really need high performance, which you know, Wi-Fi largely already is. But we need to make it more reliable. We need to make it more low latency. We need to make it, you know, more intelligent," he explained."
Wi‑Fi 8 will prioritize reliable, low-latency, and context-aware connectivity rather than increasing peak theoretical data rates. The standard will not add wider channels or higher-order modulations compared with Wi‑Fi 7. Instead, it will deliver higher effective rates at the same distance by improving performance under real-world conditions. Devices and network equipment will become more context-aware and capable of predicting and adapting to user needs. Wi‑Fi 8 aims to prevent the wireless link from becoming a bottleneck as compute and storage move to the network in the AI era. Broad industry work continues, with devices expected to appear in a couple of years.
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