What you need to know
- MediaTek announced its new MT7903 chipset at CES 2025 in collaboration with Google, which will arrive by mid-2025.
- This Filogic family chip supports tri-band Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 6 and IEEE 802.15.4 for smart home devices.
- It is designed for Google Home devices with Thread and Matter support.
Google Home devices will become much faster and more stable when connecting to or controlling each other. Google and MediaTek have jointly created the new MediaTek MT7903 chipset, which will arrive in the first half of 2025 to “promote widespread adoption of Thread.”
This Filogic branded chipset supports tri-band mode. WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 6and IEEE 802.15.4. The latter is a well-known WPAN standard used Make a differenceThread and other smart home standards in which devices communicate.
MediaTek MT7903 has a low power consumption feature called Flow Edge Router Offload. If Google home page The device enters sleep mode, the MT7903 will remain awake and connected to other smart home devices, saving power in standby mode while remaining ready for commands at any time.
Although this chip may not get into WiFi 7MediaTek, the fastest option so far, says the chip is designed to “make it more affordable and easy for manufacturers to integrate Thread into their devices.” Advanced wireless connectivity can be more expensive than available smart home technologies, and given that many smart home devices operate at 2.4GHz, Wi-Fi 6E with 6GHz support will still be a major upgrade for many devices.
Google Home hubs such as Nest Hub or Google TV Streamer 4K are also Matter hubs compatible with any latest smart home technology that meets the latest standards such as Matter 1.4. The more devices that use chips like the MediaTek MT7903, the easier it is for Google Assistant or Gemini commands to run automations without frustrating lags.
Google, which just announced at CES 2025 that it will moving Gemini commands to Google TVwas a major proponent of the Matter standard and the Thread protocol. It’s no surprise to us that the company will team up with MediaTek in this endeavor, identifying what partners will need to connect to its central products.
This chip may also appear in Nest Hub Max successor leakedwhich we hope will arrive in 2025. Google’s smart display also supports 802.15.4 and Thread, but is still locked to 5GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5. The new Nest Hub with MediaTek MT7903 and a faster Gemini Command NPU could be a smart home game changer.