Dirac and NXP Announce Collaboration to Support i.MX 8M Chipset Family with Premium Digital Audio

Swedish sound pioneer Dirac and NXP Semiconductors announced a collaboration to combine one of the world’s most powerful audio chipsets with a market-leading digital audio platform. By equipping the NXP i.MX 8M family of chipsets with Dirac’s digital audio platform, OEMs can enable their devices with maximized, immersive, and adaptive sound across their complete range of products. The strategic partnership announcement was made at CES 2020.

Marking Dirac’s debut in the smart speaker market segment, the Swedish company has teamed up with Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi to provide the Mi AI smart speaker with an improved listening experience – complete with louder audio, a wider soundstage, clearer and improved vocal separation, and richer acoustical details. This upgrade - which Xiaomi describes as “extraordinary” - has been delivered through a software update made available worldwide on January 26th, 2018.