Former Qualcomm Senior VP of Engineering and Atheros Head of Engineering joins Edgewater’s advisory team, bringing deep industry insight to next-generation Wi-Fi8 Spectrum Slicing™ silicon program

OTTAWA, Ontario & SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- (Business Wire)

Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (TSXV: YFI) (OTC: KPIFF), the industry pioneer of AI-powered Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing™ technology for residential, enterprise and Industrial IoT markets, today announced that Wi-Fi semiconductor executive Rick Bahr has joined the Company as a strategic advisor.

“Rick is one of the most respected minds in Wi-Fi silicon,” said Brian Imrie, Board Chair of Edgewater Wireless. “From Atheros to Qualcomm to Stanford and Silicon Catalyst, he’s helped define how the world connects over Wi-Fi. His decision to join Edgewater’s advisory team is a powerful validation of our Spectrum Slicing™ vision and our roadmap toward Wi-Fi8-class silicon. We’re thrilled to have his experience and judgment at the table as we move from RF packaging and AI prototyping into full SoC execution.”

Bahr is widely recognized for his decades-long leadership in Wi-Fi and processor architecture, having served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, where he was chartered with driving the company’s Wi-Fi technology roadmap. He joined Qualcomm through its 2011 acquisition of Atheros Communications, the pioneering Wi-Fi chipset company he joined in 2000 to head engineering.

“Edgewater is tackling one of Wi-Fi’s hardest problems – how to deliver consistent performance in the most congested of environments – with an elegant, scalable architectural shift,” said Rick Bahr. “Spectrum Slicing™ aligns naturally with where the Wi-Fi8 standard and next-generation access points are headed. I’m excited to support Andrew and the team as they industrialize this technology in silicon, and to help connect Edgewater with the broader semiconductor and system-level innovation I see every day at Stanford and through Silicon Catalyst.”

Prior to Atheros and Qualcomm, Bahr held senior engineering leadership roles at SGI, HP, Prime Computer and Apollo, including responsibility for both MIPS® microprocessor and Cray® supercomputer hardware engineering at SGI.

Today, Bahr serves as a strategic advisor to Stanford University’s SystemX Alliance in the School of Engineering, where he helps connect leading-edge semiconductor research with real-world applications across computing and wireless systems. He is also a long-standing advisor within the Silicon Catalyst ecosystem, focused on processor architecture, communications, and mentoring the next generation of semiconductor startups. Bahr holds both BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT.

Under his advisory role with Edgewater, Bahr will focus on:

• Helping shape the Company’s Wi-Fi8-ready Spectrum Slicing™ silicon roadmap
• Guiding system-level architecture decisions across RF front-end, baseband and AI subsystems
• Aligning Edgewater’s technology with Tier-1 service providers, industrial IoT and automotive requirements
• Providing a bridge between Silicon Catalyst’s global semiconductor ecosystem, Stanford research, and Edgewater’s product and IP-licensing strategy

As a Silicon Catalyst company, Edgewater already benefits from access to a global network of semiconductor experts, EDA, foundry and packaging partners, and corporate strategics. Bahr’s appointment deepens that connection, giving Edgewater direct access to one of the ecosystem’s most experienced Wi-Fi and processor-architecture leaders.

About Edgewater Wireless

We make Wi-Fi. Better.

Edgewater Wireless delivers unmatched Wi-Fi QoS—bar none—by intelligently mitigating congestion, managing spectrum allocation in real-time, and autonomously reconfiguring channel and link density—driving economic gains for service providers and their customers through reduced churn, improved efficiency, and high-performance connectivity in dense environments. Redefining Wi-Fi from the silicon up, Edgewater’s patented, AI-powered Spectrum Slicing platform—delivered through the PrismIQ™ product family—breaks the limits of legacy Wi-Fi by enabling multiple concurrent channels in a single band. Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing delivers 10x performance and up to 50% lower latency, even for legacy devices. With 26 granted patents and a fabless model, Edgewater is transforming the economics of Wi-Fi for service providers, OEMs, and enterprises—powering scalable, standards-leading connectivity across residential, enterprise, and Industrial IoT markets. A Silicon Catalyst portfolio company, Edgewater is building the intelligent wireless foundation for the next era of global connectivity.

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About Silicon Catalyst

Silicon Catalyst is a specialized incubator focused exclusively on accelerating semiconductor solutions, providing startups and growth-stage companies with access to critical design tools, fabrication, packaging, and test resources, as well as a global network of industry veterans and partners. Through its ecosystem, Silicon Catalyst helps innovators reduce cost, complexity and time to market for new semiconductor devices.

Visit www.siliconcatalyst.com for more information.

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