I've never heard of that. A modem is what negotiates your connection to your ISP, gets assigned your external-facing IP address, and then once that's up, provides your internet connection to your router, which then lets your other devices access the internet through it.
The wifi chips are just called wifi chips or wireless cards, etc.
Colloquially that may be the case, but something that transforms a digital signal into a radio wave and back is by any definition a modulator-demodulator (i.e. modem).
You don't hear it used much this way because people want to avoid misunderstandings with colloquial usage.
"Everyone calm down, I took a look at the paper cards this program is punched into and it's all fine."
Yup, he said Pulitzer never hacked into their voting system.
You can't even hear that AOL dialing up sound, clearly it is NOT connected to the internet, folks.
"You've got votes!"
This!
The chips that provide WiFi capability are still called modems you know.
I've never heard of that. A modem is what negotiates your connection to your ISP, gets assigned your external-facing IP address, and then once that's up, provides your internet connection to your router, which then lets your other devices access the internet through it.
The wifi chips are just called wifi chips or wireless cards, etc.
Colloquially that may be the case, but something that transforms a digital signal into a radio wave and back is by any definition a modulator-demodulator (i.e. modem).
You don't hear it used much this way because people want to avoid misunderstandings with colloquial usage.
Oh damn, I learned something new today.