All items tagged with IP licensing (10)

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.

WiSA Technologies Announces Program to License its Wireless Multichannel Audio Technology

October 26, 2022 by Joao Martins

WiSA Technologies Announces Program to License its Wireless Multichannel Audio Technology

WiSA Technologies announced a licensing program for its high-quality, multichannel wireless WiSA E software. Expanding from its original, hardware-based module approach, the new software licensing program is targeted towards HDTV platforms and speaker manufacturers. WiSA E is an interoperable audio software/IP solution designed for wireless sound technology on TV and Wi-Fi SoC platforms, enabling built-in transmission capabilities of high-quality multichannel audio streams.

CEVA Celebrates 15 Billionth CEVA-powered Chip Shipped

August 9, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Celebrates 15 Billionth CEVA-powered Chip Shipped

CEVA, Inc., the wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies licensing company, announced that cumulative royalty-bearing chip shipments that include CEVA IP surpassed 15 billion units during the second quarter of 2022. This significant milestone has been achieved as CEVA approaches it’s 20-year anniversary of being a public company. While the first 10 billion CEVA-powered shipments spanned more than 15 years, the next 5 billion shipments took less than three and a half years.

December 19, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Xperi to Merge with TiVo to Create a Leading Brand in Consumer & Entertainment Technology and IP Licensing

Xperi Corporation - the owner of DTS and HD Radio - and TiVo Corporation announced they entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction, representing approximately $3 billion of combined enterprise value. The transaction creates a much larger consumer and entertainment technology business and one of the industry’s largest intellectual property (IP) licensing platforms with a diverse portfolio of entertainment and semiconductor intellectual property.