EDN (Electronic Design News) has named the Morse Micro MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow System-on-Chip (SoC) a 2025 Product of the Year Award Winner in the IoT Systems category.
This recognition reinforces a shift that is now clearly underway across the industry: Wi-Fi is expanding beyond traditional indoor networking and becoming a scalable platform for IoT connectivity at massive scale.
Redefining What Wi-Fi Can Achieve
Wi-Fi is the most widely deployed wireless protocol in the world, connecting billions of devices across homes, workplaces, and public infrastructure. But legacy Wi-Fi standards were never designed for the realities of IoT, where networks must reach farther, consume less power, and support hundreds of endpoints. The MM8108 changes that.
Built on the IEEE 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLow standard, the MM8108 represents the smallest, fastest, lowest-power, and farthest-reaching Wi-Fi chip ever created; setting a new benchmark for long-range, low-power broadband wireless connectivity.
By operating in the sub-1 GHz spectrum, Wi-Fi HaLow enables signals to travel farther and penetrate walls, floors, dense materials, and industrial environments that defeat higher-frequency systems. In real deployments, this translates into kilometer-scale coverage, reliable indoor and outdoor performance, and support for thousands of devices from a single access point, all while maintaining standard IP networking and WPA3 security.
The MM8108 also delivers a breakthrough in performance, reaching data rates up to 43 Mbps through the world’s first sub-GHz 256-QAM modulation. That combination of range and throughput unlocks new IoT applications that previously required expensive cellular links or proprietary wireless infrastructure.
To simplify global deployment, the SoC integrates a 26 dBm power amplifier and low-noise amplifier, achieving outstanding link budgets and regulatory compliance without the need for external SAW filters. Its compact 5 × 5 mm package, flexible host interfaces, and host-offload capabilities further reduce system complexity and power draw – enabling devices designed to run for years on coin-cell or solar power.
Enabling the Next Generation of IoT Systems
The MM8108 is already unlocking new possibilities across:
- Smart Cities, with lighting, surveillance, and environmental monitoring spanning up to a kilometer
- Industrial IoT, enabling predictive maintenance, robotics, and asset tracking
- Agriculture, supporting solar-powered sensing for irrigation and livestock management
- Retail and Logistics, connecting smart shelves and real-time inventory systems
- Healthcare and Smart Homes, powering long-range monitoring and next-generation appliances
For more information about the award visit: https://www.edn.com/edn-announces-winners-of-the-2025-product-of-the-year-awards/
