Qualcomm set out to elevate WiFi in the pantheon of IoT, at the Embedded World trade show in Germany earlier this month, with a pitch for both low and mid-tier applications. This was in stark contrast to Embedded World 2023 where Qualcomm made a splash with its claimed first integrated 5G IoT processors to support four major platforms – Android, Linux, Ubuntu (specifically), and Microsoft Windows IoT Enterprise. This time the biggest splash was made at the opposite end of the IoT pool with its so-called micro-power QCC730 WiFi System-on-Chip (SoC) for battery-powered IoT devices. The key benefit of the QCC730 is a claimed 88% reduction in power consumption compared with previous generations of Qualcomm WiFi chips, according to the…