Leading in the Bluetooth LE Audio implementation efforts, aiming to improve mainstream audio quality and user experience, Airoha's collaboration with Intel will help bring audio devices to market with the highest level of compatibility between headsets and laptops. This will increase the likelihood that future vendor audio devices can more easily meet Intel's strict experience requirements and gain acceptance into the Engineered for Intel Evo laptop accessory program.
Through this collaboration program, Airoha's 20 years of experience in Bluetooth audio technology will accelerate product time-to-market and reduce maintenance costs. Accessories "Engineered for Intel Evo" laptops aim ti maximize the end-to-end user experience when paired with Intel Evo laptops.
"With more than 20 years of dedication to Bluetooth innovation, Airoha Technology provides the most comprehensive and flexible SDK for our customers to develop iterative and upgradeable products with unique features and added value and reduce time-to-market and maintenance efforts for their products. Our brand customers can develop various audio devices—such as business headsets, gaming headsets, speakers, and hearing aids — with the same SDK software platform that Airoha provides with its SoCs, and they can start each new project quickly," says Yuchuan Yang, Sr. Vice President of Airoha Technology.
"In collaboration with Intel, Airoha now offers the industry's first product development platform with embedded Bluetooth LE Audio Intel Evo experience support to help our customers' audio devices achieve Intel Evo accessory program verification more easily and enter the Intel Evo accessory program ecosystem earlier."
The Intel Evo platform is Intel's current premium consumer brand for high-performance laptops. It is designed to provide a premium computing experience with excellent responsiveness, long battery life, fast charging, and thin-and-light form factors. Laptop designs that meet the Intel Evo requirements undergo rigorous testing measurement and verification against an evolving set of specifications and key experience indicators.
The Engineered for Intel Evo laptop accessory program extends this experience to include accessories, and helps users identify 3rd party accessory product designs that are tested to ensure they meet strict Intel requirements for seamless connectivity, reliability, and performance. Enhancing the Bluetooth experience for laptop users is now in Intel's roadmap.
With this program, Airoha's customers can develop products for laptop accessories, based on semiconductor layers that meet the latest industry standards and quality benchmarks. Airoha's strengths integrated into its Bluetooth LE Audio SoCs include industry’s leading advanced Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) algorithms, which can perform 1000 operations per second to ensure optimal listening quality, coupled with Airoha's unique AI-enabled noise reduction technology that delivers clear voice quality at the microphone transmitter end.
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