Silicon Labs Shrinks Wireless SoCs to Extend BLE to Miniature Devices

The antenna is the limiting factor IIRC, the smallest module available is this thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdk.com&#x2F;cyber-e&#x2F;electronic_components&#x2F;module&#x2F;ble.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdk.com&#x2F;cyber-e&#x2F;electronic_components&#x2F;module&#x2F;ble...</a> which has the antenna as a slot in the package itself.

It&#x27;s bit silly to say that they <i>shrink</i> SoC when the new chip is exactly the same package as their previous generation from few years ago.

Is this not just a worse version of the nRF52 and nRF54 lineup? Larger size, fewer hardware peripherals, lower radio sensitivity. What is the new thing for this chip?

Nordic Semiconductors has BLE SOCs in even smaller packages. E.g. the nRF54L15 is available in a 2.4 x 2.2 mm package.

I don&#x27;t immediately see a picture of the actual chip to get a reference size bybitself, that that chip inside the tooth is pretty wild. I wonder how you would even begin to power electronics within such a space. Or perhaps this is more of a marketing level of graphics.