All items tagged with IP licensing (13)

Ceva Adds New TinyML Optimized NPUs to Enable Edge AI Everywhere

June 24, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Ceva Adds New TinyML Optimized NPUs to Enable Edge AI Everywhere

Ceva, a leading licensor of silicon and software IP that enables edge devices to connect, sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently, announced that it has extended its Ceva-NeuPro family of NPUs. These meet growing demand for efficient and specialized AI applications at the Edge, where power and processing power is often limited, particularly in consumer products such as TWS earbuds, wearables, smart speakers, smart appliances, home automation devices, cameras, and more.

Dolby Laboratories Reinforces Licensing Business with Acquisition of GE Licensing

June 6, 2024 by Joao Martins

Dolby Laboratories Reinforces Licensing Business with Acquisition of GE Licensing

Dolby Laboratories announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GE Licensing, which owns, maintains, and licenses an extensive portfolio of intellectual property (IP), primarily targeting the consumer digital media and electronics sectors. GE Licensing is responsible for more than 5,000 patents, including important digital media technologies such as the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and VVC (Versatile Video Coding) video and audio encoding technologies.

Lenbrook Media Group Unveils MQA Labs and Exciting Plans for IP Portfolio

June 5, 2024 by Joao Martins

Lenbrook Media Group Unveils MQA Labs and Exciting Plans for IP Portfolio

The newly formed Lenbrook Media Group (LMG), a business unit created on the aftermath of the MQA acquisition in the autumn of 2023, has announced the creation of MQA Labs with a mission to advance the distribution of high resolution audio with a suite of audio processing enhancement, conversion and encoding products for the music supply chain. Its three core solutions now include AIRIA by MQA Labs, essentially the SCL6 adaptive hi-res audio codec; FOQUS by MQA Labs, addressing analog-to-digital conversion; and QRONO by MQA Labs, audio processing enhancements for playback devices.

VeriSilicon Now Offers Fully Compliant Bluetooth LE Audio IP Solutions

April 1, 2024 by Joao Martins

VeriSilicon Now Offers Fully Compliant Bluetooth LE Audio IP Solutions

VeriSilicon Microelectronics announced that its complete Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) IP solution has achieved full LE Audio specification compliance, including certifications for the LE Audio protocol stack and Low Complexity Communications Codec (LC3). The Shanghai, China-based company is now able to offers manufacturers, ODMs and OEMs its own range of wireless audio and DSP solutions enabling higher quality audio streaming across various applications with lower power and cost.

Ceva Brings Bluetooth Audio to Sunplus airlyra SoC Family

January 15, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Ceva Brings Bluetooth Audio to Sunplus airlyra SoC Family

Ceva and Sunplus Technology, a leading chip provider for multimedia and automotive applications, have expanded their collaboration to integrate Ceva's latest generation RivieraWaves Bluetooth audio solution into the Sunplus airlyra family of HD audio processors targeting wireless speakers, soundbars and other premium wireless audio devices. The first wireless airlyra processors are already shipping with some of the world's premium audio brands.

Lenbrook Media Group Created to Commercialize BluOS, MQA, and SCL6 Technologies

January 4, 2024 by Joao Martins

Lenbrook Media Group Created to Commercialize BluOS, MQA, and SCL6 Technologies

The Lenbrook Group of Companies, owner of NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, Bluesound, and the renowned BluOS hi-res multiroom platform, has created a new business unit, Lenbrook Media Group. The mission is to more effectively enable the commercialization and development of Lenbrook's content management solutions, as well as pursue new licensing opportunities. With the BluOS content management platform at its core, this group will also oversee the growth of content encoding solutions MQA and SCL6, which Lenbrook acquired in the autumn of 2023.

CEVA Introduces Channel Sounding over Bluetooth to Enable High-Accuracy Secure Positioning

June 30, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Introduces Channel Sounding over Bluetooth to Enable High-Accuracy Secure Positioning

CEVA has announced support for Channel Sounding to its RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP portfolio, meeting the surging demand for high-accuracy secure positioning in the automotive, industrial and broader connected devices markets. This low power positioning technology is ideal for secure distance bounding applications such as secure vehicle entry, access control, asset tracking, and more.

February 6, 2023 by Joao Martins

WiSA Technologies Begins Shipping WiSA E Multichannel Audio Development Kits to Initial Beta Customers

WiSA Technologies, a leading provider of wireless audio technologies for home theater already adopted by Bang & Olufsen, Harman, Klipsch, Savant, LG Electronics and many others, announced its first shipments of WiSA E development kits to leading audio brands developing multichannel audio systems. Using the 5GHz portion of the Wi-Fi band, WiSA E offers high-performance, high-quality wireless audio transmission and reception at an affordable price.

Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSP Enables Highly Energy-Efficient Audio Playback for Dolby Atmos in Cars

January 9, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSP Enables Highly Energy-Efficient Audio Playback for Dolby Atmos in Cars

Cadence Design Systems announced that its Tensilica HiFi DSP now supports Dolby Atmos for cars, making it the first DSP IP with this capability. Cadence has optimized the Dolby car experience technology to run on the Tensilica HiFi DSP for audio playback of Dolby Atmos for cars. Offloading Dolby Atmos to the low-energy, high-performance Tensilica HiFi DSP enables system-on-chip (SoC) providers to offer automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers a more energy-efficient implementation without affecting the audio experience.

CEVA Appoints Technology Industry Veteran Amir Panush as CEO Effective January 2023

November 9, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Appoints Technology Industry Veteran Amir Panush as CEO Effective January 2023

After 17 years as CEO of CEVA and more than 32 years with the company, Gideon Wertheizer is set to retire at the end of the year. The CEVA board of directors has unanimously appointed Amir Panush as CEO effective January 1st, 2023. Wertheizer will continue to serve as an active member of CEVA’s board of directors and will be employed in an advisory role in the near term to ensure a smooth leadership transition.

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