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Sonical Partners With Dolphin Design to Develop the Silicon for Open Hearables
by Joao Martins

Sonical Partners With Dolphin Design to Develop the Silicon for Open Hearables

Sonical, the Silicon Valley company developing an open software platform for hearables, announced a partnership with Dolphin Design, a leading edge computing and embedded AI silicon IP company, and a subsidiary of Soitec, an industry leader in designing and manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials. Together, the two companies are working on a heterogeneous computing platform to design ASIC/SoCs with an innovative operating system that will change the end-user experience with hearables.
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RME And DirectOut Joins Forces To Develop New Digiface Ravenna Audio Networking Interface
by Joao Martins

RME And DirectOut Joins Forces To Develop New Digiface Ravenna Audio Networking Interface

RME Audio already offers audio networking interfaces, initially supporting AVB, and later embracing Dante due to popular demand. Now, RME and DirectOut have joined forces to present the new Digiface Ravenna. The mobile audio interface is based on the proven Digiface Dante, but features a Ravenna module developed by DirectOut and allows the transmission of a total of 128 audio channels coming, with a MADI option via a single USB 3.0 connection.
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Bose to Launch New Wireless Earbuds Powered by Qualcomm S5 Audio SoC
by Joao Martins

Bose to Launch New Wireless Earbuds Powered by Qualcomm S5 Audio SoC

At IFA 2022 in Berlin, Qualcomm Technologies and Bose highlighted their continued collaboration during Cristiano Amon’s opening keynote. Bose is integrating Qualcomm wireless voice and music platforms across their portfolio of premium earbuds, headphones, speakers and soundbars. Qualcomm also confirmed that the new Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II, which are scheduled to be unveiled September 7, will be Powered by the new Qualcomm S5 Sound Platform.
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USB Promoter Group Announces USB4 Version 2.0 Specification Delivering up to 80 Gbps over USB Type-C
by audioXpress Staff

USB Promoter Group Announces USB4 Version 2.0 Specification Delivering up to 80 Gbps over USB Type-C

The USB Promoter Group announced the pending release of the USB4 Version 2.0 specification, a major update to enable up to 80 Gbps of data performance over the USB Type-C cable and connector. The USB Type-C and USB Power Delivery (USB PD) specifications will also be updated to enable this higher level of data performance. All of these specification updates are expected to be published in advance of this year’s series of USB DevDays developer events planned for November.
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StreamUnlimited and GrAI Matter Labs Demonstrate Real-Time Sound Source Separation AI Platform at IFA-2022
by Joao Martins

StreamUnlimited and GrAI Matter Labs Demonstrate Real-Time Sound Source Separation AI Platform at IFA-2022

GrAI Matter Labs (GML) and StreamUnlimited announced a partnership to demonstrate multiple novel applications using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in music and consumer audio. The companies will promote their expertise in product development for consumer devices in connected audio and AI, creating new reference platforms to deliver new experiences in speech, music and multimedia for portable speakers, soundbars, TVs and more.
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DTS Play-Fi Turns-Up the Volume at IFA 2022
by Joao Martins

DTS Play-Fi Turns-Up the Volume at IFA 2022

Xperi, the company that holds DTS, confirmed that it expects its DTS Play-Fi, DTS Play-Fi Home Theater for TVs, and DTS Play-Fi Home Theater for Speakers to continue to expand its adoption by the consumer electronics industry, and with TV manufacturers in particular. At IFA 2022 in Berlin, Germany, DTS is announcing that new TVs from Philips and Vestel will introducing DTS Play-Fi Home Theater for Speakers, as the company also unveils additional products and features.
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Soundskrit Debuts World's First Directional MEMS Microphone
by Joao Martins

Soundskrit Debuts World's First Directional MEMS Microphone

Soundskrit has developed a high-performance MEMS microphone that is able to replace traditional microphone arrays with a superior solution. First previewed at CES 2018 to much fanfare, Soundskrit's high-performance directional microphones technology combines hardware and software. The company now announced the availability of its first product, the SKR0400, the world’s first directional MEMS microphone built for the needs of current and future consumer electronics product designs.
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Exeger Establishes Partnerships to Improve Efficiency of Its Powerfoyle Energy-Harvesting Technology
by Joao Martins

Exeger Establishes Partnerships to Improve Efficiency of Its Powerfoyle Energy-Harvesting Technology

Exeger, the innovative Swedish technology company behind the revolutionary solar cell technology Powerfoyle, announced its partnership with Switzerland-based semiconductor manufacturer EM Microelectronic to develop boost-converter solutions that can expand the efficiency of energy-harvesting applications. In early 2022, Exeger had already announced a partnership with NGK to use EnerCera thin and flexible batteries combined with Powerfoyle technology.
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Audio Manufacturing in Vietnam? Join the APEI Supply Chain and Sourcing Webinar August 31
by Audio Engineering_Society

Audio Manufacturing in Vietnam? Join the APEI Supply Chain and Sourcing Webinar August 31

The Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), an initiative of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) promotes another of its Supply Chain and Sourcing education sessions to assess the manufacturing alternatives outside of China. This time, the webinar is focused on what is widely regarded as one of the most attractive and convenient options for audio manufacturing in Asia - Vietnam.
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LG Joins Home Connectivity Alliance and Leads Matter Smart Home Interoperability Efforts
by Joao Martins

LG Joins Home Connectivity Alliance and Leads Matter Smart Home Interoperability Efforts

LG Electronics (LG) has been named to the Board of Directors of the Home Connectivity Alliance (HCA), an organization dedicated to delivering better smart home experiences through open collaboration and innovation. This latest announcement just reinforces LG's determination to bring greater interconnectivity, safety and security in all its products, as already clear from the fact that it was also named to the Board of Directors of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), focused on developing and promoting the Matter smart home standard.
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