Hardware

Broadcom really should be in that listing….

Synaptics and Infineon also have product lines branched from that. And Redpine (now in Onsemi) have some extra features for low power.

Marvell and NXP also figure into V2X where those others don’t always have parts to meet temperature requirements.

Agreed, that's a good rank ordering. Also, OP, if you want a stronger connection and are using a desktop, consider simply upgrading your connection with better antennas. I upgraded my router, and the antennas on my Intel AX201 with the Eightwood EWUA0160 kit since it has SMA connectors. With larger antennas at the end of a good length of cable, I was able to more advantageously place them for least interference. I can't ethernet my PC to the router right now, but I wanted to stream to my phone using Moonlight, and this helped me a lot.

If you wait just a bit the new BE700 is shipping in roughly two weeks

+1 for the AX210. Its $20 on Amazon. If you have an open PCIe x1 slot you can get an adapter and for under $40 you end up with a wifi+bluetooth card that beats any branded cards from the likes of D-Link or Netgear which are probably using proprietary broadcom or realtek chips.

Plus its upgradeable. When WiFi 7 rolls around its another $20-30 for a drop in replacement.

Intel have had lots of WIFI6 driver issues tho. Hopefully they get better code quality on newer cards.

BE200 is already available for basically the same price

Where does AMD fit? They do make WiFi chips and early AM5 boards had them

On Linux I'd recommend MediaTek, Intel adapters just suck there for some reason

IMO realtek is worst, worse than mediatek.

Avoid broadcom if you use Linux. Their drivers suck..