Gaming

Let Nordic help you deliver the wireless connectivity solution that gamers demand

Nordic Semiconductor’s wireless technology has been at the heart of every gaming controller since consoles and PCs first began ditching wired connections in the early 2000s. Today, Nordic’s SoCs continue to set the best-in-class, de facto standard for wireless in the gaming industry.

Battery-powered, wireless gaming devices (mice, keyboards, controllers, and headsets) demand ultra-robust wireless on-air performance and low latency without compromising on power consumption. In fact, no one is pickier and more sensitive to glitches in a wireless connection than gamers. Their gaming avatar’s life, and a few hundred hours of their gaming life, are both on the line.

Why proprietary is still best

Thanks to the multiprotocol radio embedded into every Nordic SoC, Nordic customers can leverage Nordic’s 2.4GHz proprietary tech in a completely optimized way that goes far beyond what any standards-based wireless technology or protocol could hope to achieve.

This includes full customization of every aspect of the operating software in the gaming controller and the development of truly differentiated devices with unique features.

Nordic’s nRF Desktop reference design is the starting point for gaming applications. It is built on the latest Nordic nRF Connect SDK and includes a complete Gaming Mouse reference design. Currently supporting nRF52 Series SoCs, this same software is pre-optimized for porting to Nordic’s latest nRF54 Series SoCs.

Besides gaming mice, the same reference design can be used for gamepads and other gaming controllers, for use in PC, mobile, or cloud gaming, and gaming headsets.

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Cloud Gaming		Gaming Headsets
Multigaming controllers

Wireless protocols for gaming

Bluetooth Low Energy

Want to add Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) connectivity to your product? We offer high-quality BLE SoCs, Bluetooth Low Energy chips, and BT modules with ultra-low power consumption and protocol stacks, ensuring excellent interoperability.

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Bluetooth LE Audio

As the Bluetooth Low Energy market leader, Nordic is your best choice for LE Audio solutions. LE Audio is the next generation of Bluetooth Audio, making audio streaming over Bluetooth Low Energy possible. It enables new use cases and significantly reduces power consumption compared to Classic (BR/EDR) Audio.

2.4 GHz proprietary

2.4 GHz flexibity and simplicity

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Power Management ICs

Nordic Semiconductor leverages its extensive experience in ultra-low-power wireless technology to develop power management ICs (PMIC) and integrated circuits, enabling industry-leading low power wireless solutions.

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Range extenders

The range and link robustness of Nordic nRF52 and nRF53 Series SoCs fulfill the requirements of most applications and use-cases, but sometimes adding a range extender/RF front end module (FEM) is the correct choice.

Recommended hardware

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nRF54H20 SoC

Sampling now: Revolutionary multiprotocol and multiprocessor SoC with world-leading processing power and efficiency, ample memory, record-breaking radio, and state-of-the-art security.

nRF54L15 SoC

Sampling now: Ultra-low power multiprotocol SoC that takes the nRF52 Series to the next level, with a massive leap forward in performance, efficiency, and security.

nPM1300 PMIC

Power Management IC (PMIC) with unique system management features

The nPM1300 is designed to provide highly efficient power regulation for Nordic’s nRF52® and nRF53® Series, as well as the nRF54H20 advanced wireless multiprotocol Systems-on-Chip (SoC). The PMIC is also suitable for battery charging for applications based on the nRF91 Series systems-in-package (SiPs) for cellular IoT, by using the PMIC’s unregulated output to power the SiP's internal buck regulators.

Devices using the nPM1300 and a compatible SoC or SiP also get access to the Nordic Fuel Gauge, a highly accurate, ultra-low-power way of estimating state-of-charge of rechargeable batteries.

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Recommended software

nRF Connect SDK

nRF Connect SDK is a common software development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Zigbee and Matter. It supports all our nRF52, nRF53, nRF70 and nRF91 Series wireless devices.

nRF Connect for Desktop

nRF Connect for Desktop is a cross-platform framework for development applications. It contains applications for testing Bluetooth Low Energy and LTE links, power optimization, programming and more.