MediaTek has announced its MT7628, a 2T2R 802.11n Wi-Fi AP System on Chip (SoC) for Home Router, Smart Router and IoT Gateway to enable high data transmission rates for voice and video applications.

According to MediaTek , MT7628 integrates a 2T2R 802.11n Wi-Fi radio and a 580MHz MIPS® 24KEc™ CPU and uses 18% less power than other chipsets in the market.The MT7628 also comes with a range of interfaces, including 5p FE switch, USB, PCIe, SD-XC, I2S/PCM and multiple slow I/Os, to provide connectivity to to a range of Internet of Things (IoT) appliances.

MT7628 runs two operation modes – router mode and IoT mode. The IoT mode supports SD-XC, eMMC, PWM, SPI slave, the third UART, and more GPIOs; and the Router mode enables the PCIe interface to connect to 802.11ac chipsets for 2x2 802.11ac DBC routers.

The high performance USB 2.0 allows MT7628 to add 3G/LTE support on a router or H.264 image sensor processor to enable the wireless IP cameras. For smart routers, MT7628 supports SD-XC, USB 2.0 and PCIe-to-SATA for home NAS. MT7628 can support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® high quality audio via 192Kbps, 24bits I2S and enable Wireless VoIP applications through PCM.

MT7628-powered devices will be commercially available in Q4, 2014.