If you don't feel like watching the video, there is the option to read the written article on:https://www.mbreviews.com/is-intel-gatekeeping-wifi-7-be200-ada...
It seems that Intel is gatekeeping WiFi 7 and I analyzed the options that we currently have.
Bare bones radio interface with all the smarts being done by CPU extensions and coprocessors in your existing chipset. If you don’t have the extensions/coprocessors, no deal.
Very similar to Intel’s video decoding enhancements where they stack a bunch of special instructions and hardware in the CPU to take the load off software video decoding.
My guess after skimming this thread:
Bare bones radio interface with all the smarts being done by CPU extensions and coprocessors in your existing chipset. If you don’t have the extensions/coprocessors, no deal.
Very similar to Intel’s video decoding enhancements where they stack a bunch of special instructions and hardware in the CPU to take the load off software video decoding.
So if I understand this right, that means you already have wifi7 support, you just need to unlock it with the m.2 shaped key.