All items tagged with wireless earbuds and Bluetooth Low Energy (10)

Alif Semiconductor Now Sampling BLE and Matter Wireless Microcontroller with Neural Co-Processor for AI/ML Workloads

November 7, 2024 by Cristina Costa

Alif Semiconductor Now Sampling BLE and Matter Wireless Microcontroller with Neural Co-Processor for AI/ML Workloads

The Balletto Bluetooth MCU family was announced by Alif Semiconductor in April 2024, and the company is now sampling its development kit, the DK-B1, to enable rapid prototyping of products that require ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy or 802.15.4 wireless connectivity. The MCU is also the world's first BLE/Matter solution to feature a DSP engine and an NPU for efficient hardware acceleration of AI/ML workloads.

Ceva Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4 IPs Bring Ultra-Low Power Wireless Connectivity to Alif Semiconductor’s Balletto Family of MCUs

July 23, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Ceva Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4 IPs Bring Ultra-Low Power Wireless Connectivity to Alif Semiconductor’s Balletto Family of MCUs

Ceva announced that Alif Semiconductor has licensed and deployed the Ceva-Waves Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 IPs in its Balletto family of wireless microcontrollers. The Balletto family is a complete Edge AI/ML microcontroller solution for wireless audio and smart home connected products with integrated Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 and 802.15.4 (Matter) wireless subsystem and a dedicated network co-processor, enabling connectivity and class leading machine learning performance in a single chip.

CEVA Introduces Bluebud Turnkey IP Wireless Audio Platform for TWS Earbuds and Bluetooth Audio Devices

February 22, 2021 by Joao Martins

CEVA Introduces Bluebud Turnkey IP Wireless Audio Platform for TWS Earbuds and Bluetooth Audio Devices

CEVA unveiled Bluebud, a highly-integrated wireless audio platform aimed at standardizing DSP-enabled Bluetooth audio IP for fast-growing applications, including True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds, hearables, gaming headsets, smartwatches and other wearable devices. The solution fully supports Bluetooth 5.2 and LE Audio design and is ready to support brands in the transition from Bluetooth Classic.

NXP Unveils New IW62X Family of 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth Devices for Advanced Audio Applications and Connected Designs

October 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

NXP Unveils New IW62X Family of 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth Devices for Advanced Audio Applications and Connected Designs

NXP Semiconductors announced its latest family of 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Dual Band + Bluetooth/BLE-Audio devices, designed to drive a new phase of connectivity innovation for all sorts of advanced audio, gaming and connected devices. Enabling the world’s first Wi-Fi 6 enabled gaming console (the new PlayStation 5), NXP’s optimized IW62X family of products will provide increased capacity, efficiency and performance for next-generation connectivity solutions including wireless speakers and all sorts of smart devices.

Bluetooth SIG Unveils LE Audio, the Next Generation of Bluetooth Audio

January 7, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Bluetooth SIG Unveils LE Audio, the Next Generation of Bluetooth Audio

At CES 2020, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the upcoming release of LE Audio, the next generation of Bluetooth audio. Two years on the making, Bluetooth LE Audio will enhance the performance of wireless audio, add support for hearing aids, and introduce Audio Sharing, a new use case with the potential to once again change the way we experience audio and connect with the world around us as Bluetooth did when it cut the cord 20 years ago to create the wireless audio market.

Bluetooth Low Energy Market Set to Triple by 2023, Reaching 1.6 Billion Device Shipments

April 5, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Bluetooth Low Energy Market Set to Triple by 2023, Reaching 1.6 Billion Device Shipments

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices are forecasted to reach over 1.6 billion annual shipments by 2023 according to market research firm ABI Research. Increasing opportunities in smart home, beacons and asset tracking, emerging IoT applications, alongside growth in existing key markets and the emergence of audio over BLE will enable the technology to achieve a CAGR of 27% between 2018 and 2023, tripling in size.

Getting to True (and Non-Captive) Wireless Stereo

November 8, 2018 by Franz Dugand

Getting to True (and Non-Captive) Wireless Stereo

Wireless stereo earbuds are super-convenient but are locked into proprietary solutions. Consumer-friendly solutions need to be interoperable. In the world of wireless earbuds we fairly quickly recognized, after Apple introduced AirPods, that earbuds connected by a strap were truly unconvincing in their claim to be truly wireless. Why did those other products even start with a strap? Mostly to keep power consumption down and to synchronize between left and right speakers, both of which become trickier if the speakers are really unconnected.

Dialog Semiconductor Demonstrates Bluetooth Low Energy True Wireless Stereo Solution at Bluetooth World 2018

September 19, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Dialog Semiconductor Demonstrates Bluetooth Low Energy True Wireless Stereo Solution at Bluetooth World 2018

Claiming an industry-first technology to address the challenges associated with power consumption in true wireless stereo systems, Dialog Semiconductor introduced an audio over Bluetooth low energy proof of concept running on its widely adopted SmartBond SoC’s, the first implementation to solely make use of Bluetooth low energy. This technology, which Dialog is unveiling at Bluetooth World 2018 (September 18-19) in Santa Clara, allows for best-in-class audio synchronization between left and right channels, and addresses the challenges associated with power consumption.

Cypress Bluetooth Audio Solution Provides Robust Connections for Wireless Earbuds and Hearables

September 18, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Cypress Bluetooth Audio Solution Provides Robust Connections for Wireless Earbuds and Hearables

Cypress Semiconductor introduced a Bluetooth audio development solution that improves performance to wireless earbuds and hearables. Based on the new Wireless Audio Stereo Synchronization (WASS) application and the CYW20721 Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Audio microcontroller (MCU), the solution provides stereo synchronization and robust connections for differentiated performance in wireless earbuds.

Wireless Earbuds – Improved Convenience, Constrained Audio Quality

September 12, 2018 by Youval Nachum

Wireless Earbuds – Improved Convenience, Constrained Audio Quality

Wireless headsets and earbuds, those lightweight, untethered truly wireless devices to listen to your playlist or a conference call, are a fast-growing consumer trend for good reason. Who enjoys untangling the cable they stuffed in their pocket or having wires dangling around their head? Wireless delivers – no cables, no tangles and no tumbling earphones (although claims that a cord connecting the earbuds still counts as “wireless” clearly came as a surprise to many consumers).