Dual-band Wi-Fi 6 MCUs target IoT

Renesas introduced the RA6W1 dual-band Wi-Fi 6 wireless MCU (datasheet) and announced the RA6W2 variant integrating Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth LE for always-connected IoT designs in smart home, industrial, medical, and consumer devices. Based on an Arm Cortex-M33 at 160 MHz with 704 KB SRAM, the devices support 2.4/5 GHz operation and low-power modes down to 200 nA–4 µA sleep and under 50 µA (DTIM10), plus AES-256, secure boot, TRNG, and XiP decryption; modules include the RRQ61001 (datasheet) and RRQ61051 (datasheet).