The Grand Challenge of Connecting Everything to Everyone, Everywhere

We are on the cusp of connecting everything to everything else: e-readers, tablets, netbooks, smart meters, smart cars, you name it. But with high bandwidth comes high demands on chipsets, batteries and spectrum. Atheros pioneered some of the first chips in the Wi-Fi standard. Now as Qualcomm Atheros, the company is delivering technology, both wired and wireless, to support the connection of everything. We talk with Craig Barratt about which technologies he thinks will be most prevalent in the market of the future, the role of Wi-Fi in connecting everything, and what else he believes is needed to make this grand vision a reality.