Intel Acquires Rivet Networks to Improve Connectivity for Gaming, Performance PCs

Intel is buying Rivet Networks, a provider of software and cloud-based technologies for Wi-Fi networks. The companies partnered to build the Wi-Fi 6-based Killer AX1650, said to deliver speed, intelligence and control for gamers and performance PC users. The Rivet team will be part of Intel’s client computing group, and its key products will integrate into Intel’s PC Wi-Fi portfolio, blogged Chris Walker, general manager of the group. Intel will license Rivet software to customers and develop new solutions for “broader PC connectivity enhancement,” he said Wednesday.