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Why does Broadcoms solution have hardware-based AES when AES is not yet required for WPA?

April 26, 2017AES Broadcom hardware-based solution wpa

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Why does Broadcoms solution have hardware-based AES when AES is not yet required for WPA?

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In addition to WPA, AES encryption will be a key component in the forthcoming 802.11i security specification. Broadcom has enabled AES in hardware, which significantly improves performance over software implementations of AES.