Hackaday.io hacker [ajlitt] is looking for a way out of the WiFi bind. His solution ... protocol that’s used with SD memory cards. The idea with SDIO was that you could plug a GPS or something ...

While we are used to USB WiFi adapters, embedded devices typically use SDIO WiFi cards, and for good reasons – they’re way more low-power, don’t take up a USB port, don’t require a power ...

The increased bandwidth (UHS-I) of 832 Mbps supported by SDIO 3.0 make it an ideal controller to implement high speed cards such as WiFi, LTE, WiMax, GPS.