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You are mixing up SOCs and devboards. RP2040 is a chip, there has never been version with onboard communication.

Raspberry Pi Foundation released a RP2040 based dev board(Pico W) with an additional external wireless chip, as have others(including boards with an additional ESP32 just do comms).

Ah thanks for clearing that up. Entirely my mistake, I thought that it was a package like the ESP32, but it is not.

Their plan is to have it by the end of the year:

>Before the end of the year, we expect to ship a wireless-enabled Pico 2 W, using the same Infineon 43439 modem as Pico W, and versions of both Pico 2 and Pico 2 W with pre-installed 0.1-inch headers.

They say in the post that it will be released towards the end of the year.