Ralink Technology, Corp.

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Semiconductor
Founded	2001; 25 years ago (2001), Cupertino, California
Headquarters	Hsinchu, Taiwan
Products	Wi-Fi chipset
Parent	MediaTek

Ralink Technology, Corp. is a Wi-Fi chipset manufacturer mainly known for their IEEE 802.11 (Wireless LAN) chipsets. Ralink was founded in 2001 in Cupertino, California, then moved its headquarters to Hsinchu, Taiwan. On 5 May 2011, Ralink was acquired by MediaTek.

Some of Ralink's 802.11n RT2800 chipsets have been accepted into the Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11n draft 2.0 core technology testbed. They have also been selected in the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) and Wireless Multimedia Extensions Power Save (WMM-PS) testbeds. Ralink was a participant in the Wi-Fi Alliance and the IEEE 802.11 standards committees.^[1] Ralink chipsets are used in various consumer-grade routers made by Gigabyte Technology, Linksys, D-Link, Asus and Belkin, as well as Wi-Fi adaptors for USB, PCI, ExpressCard, PC Card, and PCI Express interfaces. An example of an adapter is the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector which uses the Ralink RT2570 chipset to allow a Nintendo DS or Wii to be internetworked via a home computer.

Operating systems support

Ralink provides some documentation without a non-disclosure agreement.^[2] This includes datasheets of their PCI and PCIe chipsets, but for now does not include documentation of their system on a chip used in Wireless routers.

See also

• List of companies of Taiwan

References

External links

• MediaTek / RaLink RT3070 Driver Win, OSX, Linux https://www.mediatek.com/products/broadbandWifi/rt3070 Archived 2017-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
• List of Wi-Fi products using Ralink chipsets
• rt2x00 project at the Wayback Machine (archived April 3, 2015)
• ral, ural manual pages for OpenBSD