Home topics news Michael De Nil, CEO & co-founder at Morse Micro Business Tech News Tech Business Tech New Long-Range Wi-Fi HaLow Chip Launches – Aussie Semiconductor startup Morse Micro starts shipping chips and expands globally Yajush Gupta November 26, 2021 Everyone loves Wi-Fi, but who hasn’t experienced issues with Wi-Fi signals not reaching through walls or to the other end of your office or house? Wi-Fi is also power-hungry and depletes phone batteries and other battery-powered devices like video cameras and doorbells. Sydney based Morse Micro is a five-year-old company solving some of Wi-Fi’s biggest frustrations. The startup has made significant strides in Wi-Fi-based Internet of Things (IoT) as it expands overseas and paves the way for next-generation Wi-Fi-based IoT technology. Morse Micro was founded by Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, two lead engineers who met while working for global semiconductor company Broadcom, where they led the design of the Wi-Fi chip shipped in over a billion iPhones. They were joined by early employee and investor Prof. Neil Weste, one of the original Wi-Fi inventors and founder of Radiata, an Australian Wi-Fi chip company that built the world’s first Wi-Fi 802.11a chipsets; Radiata was sold to Cisco in 2001 for $570m. “Morse Micro is a fabless semiconductor company developing a new generation of long-range Wi-Fi chips,” Michael De Nil tells Dynamic Business in an exclusive interview from their new office in Bangalore. “We are headquartered in Australia, with offices in the United States, China and now India. We