Audio Codecs Raises the Bar for Low Latency, High-Quality Audio Compression with Skylark V2.0

Audio Codecs, the company licensing advanced low-latency digital audio compression algorithms, announced the release of Skylark V2.0 — the next evolution of its acclaimed audio codec technology. While Skylark was widely embraced because of its leading latency, the improved codec optimizes even more the critical parameters in terms of data rate and computing complexity, while still managing to lower the already groundbreaking latency.

Widely recognized as a high-quality audio compression algorithm, used in film sound to radio broadcast, studios and finally in Bluetooth, where its incorporated into billions of devices, the successful story of aptX technology is inextricably linked to the history of digital audio and a remarkable corporate journey, from APT to CSR and Qualcomm. This article offers an insider's overview of the aptX audio codec adoption and evolution, and how the technology was interlinked with the author's professional career for the past 28 years. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2022.

The Ethernet Alliance released its 2015 Ethernet Roadmap, the first-ever publicly available industry document outlining the ongoing development and evolution of Ethernet through the end of the decade. Four new speeds – 2.5 Gigabit per second (Gb/s); 5 Gb/s; 25 Gb/s; and 400 Gb/s Ethernet – are currently in development by the IEEE, while the industry is also considering 50Gb/s and 200 Gb/s Ethernet.