Five years ago this week… Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2019, Broadcom landed the industry’s first WiFi 6 smartphone deployment, powering Samsung’s Galaxy S10 with its BCM4375 chip. This announcement came way ahead of the WiFi Alliance’s certification of WiFi 6 for devices using 802.11ax technology, which wasn’t set to arrive for another six months. A test of the Samsung Galaxy 10’s speed recorded 76 Mbps when connected to a WiFi 6 router compared to 6 Mbps when connected to a router running an older version of the standard. Five years later, WiFi 7 has recently been launched with limited hardware support, but is expected by the WiFi Alliance to reach 233 million devices on the market by the end of…