In recent times, Qualcomm has come out of its 3GPP enclosure and sought to be a major force in WiFi too, courtesy of its Atheros acquisition and inhouse activities. Its latest announcement, made at last week’s Computex trade show in Taiwan, is a mesh networking platform which builds a full reference platform, for OEMs, around its chips, and brings together several WiFi technologies, stretching them beyond their usual limits. The Mesh Networking Platform is designed to connect smart devices of all kinds through the home, including the increasingly important voice-activated home controllers such as Google Home and Amazon Echo. Its offering should reduce time to market for vendors which want to follow Google. Netgear and Linksys into the home wireless…