All items tagged with automotive (254)
Automotive OEM Engineering and Business - An Opportunity for Audio Brands
June 25, 2021 by Roger Shively

Automotive OEM Engineering and Business - An Opportunity for Audio Brands

Branded Sound Signatures? Unique Brand Simulation Presets? All Part of Automotive OEM Engineering and Business. In this article, originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter, Roger Shively (Co-founder, JJR Acoustics) writes about automotive opportunities for branded audio and how, as audio system and vehicle acoustic simulation is on the rise, modeling and tuning of sound signatures also becomes a possibility.
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Alps Alpine Designs First 32-bit/384kHz High-Resolution Audio System for Car Audio
June 24, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Alps Alpine Designs First 32-bit/384kHz High-Resolution Audio System for Car Audio

Alps Alpine, the manufacturer of electronic components and automotive infotainment systems and its domestic marketing division Alpine Electronics of America, announced a new series of products aimed at taking high resolution audio reproduction in car audio to a whole new level. The new AlpineF#1Status is a complete systems approach to premium car audio that embodies Alpine’s vision of “Emotion in Mobility,” by delivering an unparalleled music experience.
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Cadence Announces New Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family for Low Power AI/ML
June 18, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Announces New Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family for Low Power AI/ML

Cadence Design Systems unveiled the Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP family, optimized for power, performance and area (PPA). The new DSP IP cores extend from small, ultra-low power to very high performance and are well-suited for a broad array of applications, from energy-efficient solutions for battery powered devices to artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), sensor fusion, object tracking and augmented reality applications in the mobile, automotive, and consumer markets.
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Noveto Systems Receives New $10M Million Investment from Adit Ventures
June 11, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Noveto Systems Receives New $10M Million Investment from Adit Ventures

Noveto Systems announced the successful completion of a bridge of $10 Million from renowned technology investors Adit Ventures, a firm that has invested in some of the world’s leading disruptive companies, with exits in GoPro, Spotify, Palantir and Lyft. The investment is set to enable rapid company expansion and help promote Noveto's revolutionary personal sound beaming concept to new markets.
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Meridian Audio - Transforming Listening Experiences on the Move with New Technologies
June 2, 2021 by Special Content

Meridian Audio - Transforming Listening Experiences on the Move with New Technologies

Originally published as part of the Automotive Audio Solutions Market Update feature in audioXpress June 2021, this article offers an overview on how British audio pioneer Meridian Audio is transforming listening experiences with new technologies for the car. For more than 10 years, Meridian has built a strong presence within the automotive market, with outstanding recent examples available for McLaren Automotive, Jaguar Land Rover, Human Horizons, Rivian, and Kia. The article details the company's approach with 3D surround sound and immersive in-car audio systems that combine all its digital processing solutions.
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Dirac Raises Equity to Accelerate Growth in Audio Innovation
May 31, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Dirac Raises Equity to Accelerate Growth in Audio Innovation

Swedish sound processing pioneer Dirac announced the completion of a direct share equity issue that raised $17.73-million USD (150 MSEK) from new investor TIN Fonder and current investor DIG Investment. According to Dirac CEO Peter Friedrichsen, the new equity raise values the company at just under $142.2-million USD and positions Dirac to fully leverage and lead what it believes will be the next great era in audio driven by software rather than hardware alone.
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Resonado Labs Welcomes Loudspeaker Legend Benny Danovi as VP of Engineering
May 25, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Resonado Labs Welcomes Loudspeaker Legend Benny Danovi as VP of Engineering

Resonado Labs is rapidly growing its US engineering team, and now announced the appointment of Benny Danovi as the new company Vice President of Engineering and Principal Transducer Engineer. In his new role leading the transducer team, Danovi will spearhead the expansion of the company’s proprietary Flat Core Speaker (FCS) technology architecture with a focus on next generation driver designs for automotive and multimedia applications.
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Spotify Uses Audio Weaver in Audio Front-End Development for Car Thing
May 20, 2021 by Joao Martins

Spotify Uses Audio Weaver in Audio Front-End Development for Car Thing

Spotify partnered with DSP Concepts to build and deploy the audio front-end (AFE) software for its limited release of Car Thing, a dedicated smart player for the car. Spotify did the development for Car Thing using TalkTo, DSP Concepts’ proprietary AFE that acts as a ‘microphone cleaner’ by combining advanced signal processing techniques to create clean audio signals so Car Thing can detect voice commands regardless of road noise and other in-cabin sound.
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Valens Provides Multi-Gigabit Connectivity Solution for Mercedes-Benz S-Class Premium Infotainment System
May 20, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Valens Provides Multi-Gigabit Connectivity Solution for Mercedes-Benz S-Class Premium Infotainment System

Valens, the semiconductor company that is pushing the boundaries of connectivity, announced that its VA6000 chipsets are integrated in the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, launched in September 2020. This marks the first multi-gigabit symmetric link in the world to be deployed in mass production, and the only multi-gigabit technology over unshielded wiring for in-vehicle connectivity.
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Abbey Road Studios and Bowers & Wilkins Extend Partnership to Transform In-Car Audio Entertainment
May 13, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Abbey Road Studios and Bowers & Wilkins Extend Partnership to Transform In-Car Audio Entertainment

Abbey Road Studios and Bowers & Wilkins announced a new phase of their partnership, which will see the two iconic audio brands come together to explore and enhance the in-car audio experience. The main goal is to explore new possibilities in spatial audio and acoustics simulation, helping to translate ideal acoustical environments that translate music as well in the vehicle cabin as it would in a reference studio environment.
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