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Upgrade Sensing for Your True Wireless Stereo Designs. Why Buy Four Chips if You Only Need One?
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Upgrade Sensing for Your True Wireless Stereo Designs. Why Buy Four Chips if You Only Need One?

Azoteq recently released its second-generation four-in-one chip for earbuds. The IQS7222A IC is a multifunctional capacitive, inductive, and Hall-effect sensor with additional temperature sensing for reference tracking. The 1.62 x 1.62 mm chip allows you to add a touch-and-swipe interface, wear detection, docking detection and your choice of an inductive waterproof button or the inductive force-sensing features.
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THX Onyx Portable DAC/Amp Bundles Qobuz Hi-Res Quality Service
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THX Onyx Portable DAC/Amp Bundles Qobuz Hi-Res Quality Service

Qobuz, the high-quality music streaming and download service, announced a partnership with THX to make high-resolution audio listening more accessible to music lovers worldwide. The recently launched THX Onyx digital-to-analog amplifier dongle (DAC/Amp) will now be bundled with a three-month complimentary subscription of Qobuz, offering plug-and-play 24-bit sound quality from a variety of listening devices..
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New Certified USB Logo Program for USB4, USB Type-C, and USB Power Delivery Specifications
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New Certified USB Logo Program for USB4, USB Type-C, and USB Power Delivery Specifications

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced new Certified USB Type-C Cable power rating logos to clearly indicate the power capabilities of USB-C cables to consumers. According to the the support organization for the advancement and adoption of USB technology, Certified USB Type-C Cables will now feature logos highlighting support for 60W or 240W of power as defined by the recently published USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 3.1 Specification.
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MediaTek Announces New Filogic 830 and Filogic 630 Wi-Fi 6/6E Chips
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MediaTek Announces New Filogic 830 and Filogic 630 Wi-Fi 6/6E Chips

MediaTek unveiled its new Filogic connectivity family with the introduction of the Filogic 830 Wi-Fi 6/6E system-on-chip (SoC) and Filogic 630 Wi-Fi 6E network interface card (NIC) solutions. The highly integrated chipsets offer fast, reliable connectivity with enhanced performance for broadband routers, mesh systems, enterprise access points and retail routers. Two high-performance, power-efficient Wi-Fi 6/6E chipsets with high computation capabilities and a rich set of features.
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Sound Solutions Austria Presents World's First Actuator Loudspeaker for Stereo Sound
by Joao Martins

Sound Solutions Austria Presents World's First Actuator Loudspeaker for Stereo Sound

The micro-acoustics experts at Sound Solutions Austria GmbH have developed a compact actuator that is able to ensure stereo sound quality when used to transform the display of increasingly thin smartphones and tablets into a loudspeaker. According to the Vienna-based company, the new “Singing Display” actuator is ideal for space-saving, waterproof designs, extending the response beyond what is possible with conventional speakers technologies, by being applied directly to the back of the large tablet or smartphone screen surfaces.
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CEVA, Beken and VisiSonics Announce Reference Design for 3D Spatial Audio in Headsets and TWS Earbuds
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CEVA, Beken and VisiSonics Announce Reference Design for 3D Spatial Audio in Headsets and TWS Earbuds

CEVA, together with Beken Corporation, a key player in wireless communication solutions, and VisiSonics, the 3D spatial audio technologies specialists, announced the availability of a complete 3D audio reference design for the rapid deployment of headsets and True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds supporting spatial audio for use in gaming, multimedia and conferencing. The integration delivers a complete 3D spatial audio hardware and software solution to consumer electronics OEMs and ODMs.
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Perlisten Audio Debuts S7i In-Wall THX Certified Dominus Speaker
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Perlisten Audio Debuts S7i In-Wall THX Certified Dominus Speaker

Perlisten Audio, the audio company founded by an all-star team of audio industry professionals in direct cooperation with THX Ltd., the audio and video certification and technology company, announced the seventh model in its cutting-edge lineup. With the new S7i (SRP: $7,495 each), Perlisten introduces the world's first in-wall speaker to achieve THX Certified Dominus status. The new speaker, scheduled to ship November 2021, features the same advanced technologies as the company's flagship S7t tower speaker.
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Syntiant Accelerates Audio and Voice Product Development With New TinyML Development Board
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Syntiant Accelerates Audio and Voice Product Development With New TinyML Development Board

Syntiant unveiled its TinyML Development Board, an easy-to-use developer kit aimed at both technical and non-technical users for building machine learning-powered applications in smart products, such as speech commands, wake word detection, acoustic event detection and other sensor use cases. The new machine learning development board allows developers to build low-power voice, audio and sensor applications using Edge Impulse’s Embedded ML platform.
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NAD Electronics Launches New C 700 BluOS Streaming Amplifier
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NAD Electronics Launches New C 700 BluOS Streaming Amplifier

NAD Electronics continues its expansion in the “just add speakers” category with the introduction of the C 700 BluOS Streaming Amplifier. As it did with the C 399 integrated amplifier, this new compact and modern solution renews the company's Classic Series with a powerful HybridDigital UcD amplification, 80-watts per channel and integral BluOS app interface. The C 700 suggested retail price is $1499 USD / €1499 EUR and will ship globally in late October 2021.
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Synaptics Accelerates Low Power Edge AI Audio Product Development with Edge Impulse Partnership
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Synaptics Accelerates Low Power Edge AI Audio Product Development with Edge Impulse Partnership

Synaptics announced a partnership with Edge Impulse, the company leading machine learning development efforts on edge devices. The partnership combines Synaptics' latest Katana Ultra Low-Power Edge AI Platform with the Edge Impulse software development platform used by thousands of embedded developers to create, train and deploy custom models for a wide range of AI applications. The combined solutions will make developing machine learning models for low-power connected devices even easier.
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