Mark Gonikberg

Built World

As of May 2026: Leading Broadcom's push into mass-market Wi-Fi 8 and PON silicon

For two decades, 'fiber to every home' was promised and postponed — not because of the fiber, but because gateway hardware stayed too expensive for carriers to include free. On April 30, 2026, Broadcom announced chipsets designed to change that: a 10-gigabit passive optical network (PON) gateway system-on-chip and two paired Wi-Fi 8 radios, all engineered for mass-market price points.

Updated May 31