AMD and Qualcomm are teaming up to make the Wi-Fi in your business laptop faster. Today, the two companies
announced that they're working to bring Qualcomm FastConnect to PCs with AMD Ryzen processors, beginning on enterprise notebooks using the Ryzen Pro 6000 series chips and Qualcomm FastConnect 6900.
This will bring Wi-Fi 6 and 6E to some business notebooks, though they would hardly be the first. But AMD and Qualcomm claim that by also bringing Microsoft in on the collab, laptops including the HP EliteBook 805 series and
Lenovo ThinkPad Z series will take advantage of wireless options built into
Windows 11.
Specifically, those laptops will use Windows 11 Wi-Fi Dual Station, which Qualcomm
has pushed before for gaming. (In fact, back when that was announced in October 2021, AMD corporate vice president Jason Banta
said the company was planning to bring the tech to business laptops. Some promises do come true!) This will allow laptops to use multiple Wi-Fi bands simultaneously for reduced latency, stronger connections, and, the companies claim, better video conferencing. And because these notebooks can use the 6GHz wireless band, they shouldn't have to fight for a connection with older network devices.
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