Long driven by smartphone chips sales, MediaTek, the world’s 5th largest IC design house by revenue as of first-quarter 2022, is gearing up for growth potential in the connectivity market driven by 5G and Internet of Things (IoT). On August 18, MediaTek released the T830 platform, built with the company’s M80 modem supporting sub-6GHz operations, for 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) routers and customer-premise equipment (CPE). Earlier this May, MediaTek also released the Genio open platform software design kit (SDK) for AIoT devices, in combination with Genio 1200, a chipset for advanced smart home and industrial IoT applications.