{"id":759228,"date":"2020-05-22T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=759228"},"modified":"2020-05-22T06:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:15:14","slug":"intel-acquires-rivet-maker-of-killer-wireless-ac-gaming-wi-fi-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=759228","title":{"rendered":"Intel acquires Rivet, maker of Killer Wireless-AC gaming Wi-Fi gear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> This Killer 1650x is really a rebranded Intel AX200 under the hood\u2014but to be fair, Intel put stuff into<\/em> the AX200 chipset just for Rivet, which only gets enabled on Rivet’s version of the card. (credit: Rivet Networks<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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On Wednesday, Intel announced<\/a>\u00a0its acquisition of Rivet Networks\u2014makers of the Killer AC-brand line of gamer-oriented Wi-Fi gear\u2014for an undisclosed price.<\/p>\n

Intel Vice President Chris Walker describes the acquisition as “a terrific complement to our existing Wi-Fi products,” going on to praise Rivet’s products\u2014the best known of which is the Killer Wireless-AC line of gaming-targeted Wi-Fi cards\u2014and declare its intent to integrate the Killer line into Intel’s broader PC Wi-Fi portfolio.<\/p>\n

Aside from the branding, the major value Intel acquires with Rivet is far more likely to be software than hardware. When privately testing a Killer Wireless-AC Wi-Fi card in a gaming laptop, the card in the laptop did not distinguish itself above a standard Intel 7265 Wi-Fi interface in a Chromebook\u2014but that was without using the Killer’s software stack to specifically prioritize my test traffic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Intel acquires Rivet, maker of Killer Wireless-AC gaming Wi-Fi gear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enlarge \/ This Killer 1650x is really a rebranded Intel AX200 under the hood\u2014but to be fair, Intel put stuff into the AX200 chipset just for Rivet, which only gets enabled on Rivet’s version of the card. (credit: Rivet Networks) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-759228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}