Mark Gonikberg

Built World

Leading Broadcom's push into mass-market Wi-Fi 8 and PON silicon

For two decades, 'fiber to every home' has been promised and postponed. The fiber itself was rarely the bottleneck. The constraint was the gateway hardware—the box on a customer's wall that turns light pulses into Wi-Fi—which stayed too expensive for carriers to hand out free with a service plan. On April 30, 2026, Broadcom announced the chipsets designed to break that constraint: a 10-gigabit passive optical network gateway system-on-chip and two paired Wi-Fi 8 radios, all engineered for mass-market price points.

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