atheros website www.wilocity.com wilocity was a fabless semiconductor company based in california founded in 2007 developing 60 ghz multi gigabit wireless chipsets for both the mobile computing platform and peripheral markets . wilocity was founded in march 2007 by executives and engineers from intel s wi fi centrino group . while wilocity is based in california most of its employees are in israel . based on the wireless gigabit alliance wigig specification wilocity s wireless pci express wpcie technology enables multi gigabit wireless for applications including i o networking and video . the company is involved in 60 ghz multi gigabit wireless industry organizations . wilocity was a founding member of the wireless gigabit alliance wigig and serves on its board of directors and chairs the marketing work group . 1 wilocity initiated the creation of the ieee 802.11 ad task group which enhances the 802.11 n wireless lan standard to multi gigabit per second speeds in the 60 ghz band . in addition wilocity led the creation of the wi fi alliance 60 ghz gigabit wireless marketing task group and serves as its chair . 2 3 4 5 6 7 on july 14 2010 wilocity and atheros a developer of semiconductors for network communications announced a technology partnership to build a tri band wireless solution . tri band devices will leverage the 2.4 5 and 60 ghz bands delivering multi gigabit data transfer speeds while maintaining compatibility with legacy wi fi products . 8 on may 12 2014 zdnet reported that qualcomm was on the brink of acquiring wilocity . according to financial website themarker qualcomm s potential acquisition could cost the company up to 300 million . 9 on 3 july 2014 the successful purchase was announced wilocity now being part of qualcomm atheros . the triple band wlan chip snapdragon 810 was also announced . 10 see also edit wireless gigabit alliance wi fi alliance ieee 802.11 references edit wigig homepage . wigig.org . wigig alliance completes multi gigabit 60ghz wireless specification let the streaming begin . engadget december 10 2010 wigig group finalizes new wireless standard . cnet news december 11 2010 wigig fast wireless group finishes standard . pc world december 10 2009 wigig alliance finalizes spec tri band wi fi in 2010 . pc mag december 10 2009 wigig group gives first peak at 60 ghz spec . ee times december 10 2009 wigig completes wireless specification . information week december 10 2009 atheros and wilocity partner to build tri band wireless solutions that combine wi fi and wigig technologies . business wire july 14 2010 qualcomm to acquire high speed chipmaker wilocity report . zdnet may 12 2014 qualcomm kauft wilocity f r triple band wlan l sungen in german . 2014 07 03 . external links edit wilocity wilocity web site this article about wireless technology is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about an israeli company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wilocity & oldid 647553926 categories qualcommcompanies established in 2007fabless semiconductor companiessemiconductor companies of israelwireless stubsisraeli company stubshidden categories cs1 german language sources de all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 february 2015 at 14 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view