The fight is on for WiFi 7 chip superiority, especially between Broadcom and Qualcomm, and the latter set out its stall last week. WiFi 7 laptops and other products will not ship until late 2003 or early 2004, and the WiFi 7 standards are not yet finalized. However, chipmakers generally have to work on products before new standards are completed, to allow for their own development timescales and the time that their customers need to evaluate and purchase, well ahead of commercial launch dates. That evaluation process is particularly complex when a technology may be targeting mission-critical processes, as WiFi 7 aims to do, challenging or complementing 5G in enterprise or industrial networks that require critical connectivity. The…