[REQUEST] New gateway/adapter based on Silicon Labs EFR32MG26 as Zigbee Coordinator / Zigbee Router / Thread Border Router

[Hedda]

Please consider making/selling a Zigbee Coordinator and Zigbee and Thread adapters based on the upcoming Silicon Labs EFR32MG26:

FYI; Silicon Labs has announced xG26 (EFR32xG26) family which includes multiprotocol MG26 SoC/MCU that they call "future-proof":

https://news.silabs.com/2024-04-09-Silicon-Labs-xG26-Sets-New-Standard-in-Multiprotocol-Wireless-Device-Performance

https://www.silabs.com/wireless/efr32xg26

The claim of "future-proof" is because they feature up to a whopping 3200KB of Flash Storage , 512KB of RAM, and 64 GPIO’s.

Now for multiprotocol the interesting SoC/MCU for Zigbee, Thread, and Bluetooth is Silicon Labs EFR32MG26 Series 2 (a.k.a. MG26):

https://www.silabs.com/wireless/zigbee/efr32mg26-series-2-socs

Once they are made available I think this new EFR32MG26 SoC/MCU model will be particularly interesting as a Zigbee Coordinator targeting gateway applications that allow for a much higher total Zigbee 3.0 device limitation, while also providing headroom to enable Multi-PAN support Matter over Thread Thread Boarder Router if that feature ever become more stable.

https://www.silabs.com/wireless/zigbee

Other than having 5x Flash Storage and RAM + double of GPIOs, the specification looks practically identical to the previous EFR32MG24:

No news on FCC/CE precertified MGM260/MGM260P/MGM260L) modules based on EFR32MG26 to replace MGM240 and MGM240.

https://www.silabs.com/wireless/zigbee/efr32mg26-series-2-modules

https://www.silabs.com/wireless/zigbee/efr32mg24-series-2-modules

https://www.silabs.com/wireless/zigbee/efr32mg21-series-2-modules

PS: At the same time they also announced EFR32BG26 (Silabs EFR32 BG26) which is basically the same chip locked to Bluetooth only:

https://www.silabs.com/wireless/bluetooth/efr32bg26-series-2-socs