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Cardinal Peak Opens Dante Development Center in Vietnam
by audioXpress Staff

Cardinal Peak Opens Dante Development Center in Vietnam

Cardinal Peak announced a strategic partnership with Audinate to establish a Dante Development Center in Vietnam. The new development center will offer custom Dante development expertise to OEMs and hardware manufacturers, speeding up time to market. The collaboration will also accelerate the integration of Audinate's Dante audio and video solutions for manufacturers through Cardinal Peak’s extensive engineering services expertise.
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Alif Semiconductor Now Sampling BLE and Matter Wireless Microcontroller with Neural Co-Processor for AI/ML Workloads
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.
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AudioSmile Launches Refined Little British Monitor
by Joao Martins

AudioSmile Launches Refined Little British Monitor

AudioSmile, the brand of designer and maker Simon Ashton, has reached out to audioXpress to let us know about the release of a new version of the Little British Monitor (LBM), a successor to its previous (and highly praised) LBM and LBM MK2 models. Far more than a simple iteration, the new LBM (MK3) is a ground-up redesign to achieve the very best performance in a desktop-sized active speaker package. Available as both a finished product or a build-you-own kit.
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OmniBuds Hearables Project by Nokia Bell Labs Backed by Cambridge Future Tech
by Joao Martins

OmniBuds Hearables Project by Nokia Bell Labs Backed by Cambridge Future Tech

OmniBuds are the world's first hearables designed to continuously monitor all 5 vital signs, complemented by state-of-the-art augmented hearing capabilities. Conceived by Nokia Bell Labs in Cambridge, UK, the OmniBuds project is now receiving further support from venture builder Cambridge Future Tech. The company entered into a relationship with Nokia Bell Labs and Nokia Ventures & Partnerships to establish OmniBuds Ltd for the commercialization of the OmniBuds platform, as a fully featured ear-worn AI/ML computing platform.
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HEAD acoustics Improves Efficiency of End-of-Line Tests
by Joao Martins

HEAD acoustics Improves Efficiency of End-of-Line Tests

HEAD acoustics is setting new standards in end-of-line (EoL) testing with a new modular test system that combines the company's AQuire V4 hardware front-end with its AI-supported conTEST software for efficient analysis. According to the German company, this state-of-the-art solution allows manufacturers to implement real-time pass/fail decisions with increased process reliability, and improved vibroacoustic product quality.
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Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver
by audioXpress Staff

Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver

Eclipse Audio continues to expand its partnerships and software, allowing the use of FIR filtering in DSP-driven loudspeakers, for loudspeaker design, live tuning, and system integration. The company founded by Michael John in 2016 now announced that its FIR Designer M (multichannel) software now has capabilities to build up to 6-way presets. Like the single channel FIR Designer, FIR Designer M now also added new branded IIR modes and expanded support with more DSP tools.
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Global Sources 2024 Hong Kong Shows With Record Number of Exhibitors and Less Visitors
by audioXpress Staff

Global Sources 2024 Hong Kong Shows With Record Number of Exhibitors and Less Visitors

The October 2024 Global Sources Hong Kong Shows at AsiaWorld-Expo have concluded after an intense month of activities. The three-phase show program, spanning multiple sectors including Consumer Electronics, Electronic Components, Smart Home, Lifestyle, Sports & Outdoor, and Baby & Children, attracted nearly 5,000 premium Asian suppliers and showcased over 500,000 innovative products, setting a new record for exhibitor participation.
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Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC
by Joao Martins

Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC

Alango Technologies announced a new digital sound processing module for Qualcomm's Bluetooth SoCs, including the latest S7 Gen1 Sound platform that features five times the compute power, three times the DSP processing power, and almost 100 times on-device AI processing power compared to previous solutions. According to Alango, this first to market platform offers a pre-integrated, ready-to-use modular solution for the latest generation of hearables and advanced audio designs.
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Brane Audio RAD Speaker Technology Named in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024
by Joao Martins

Brane Audio RAD Speaker Technology Named in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024

As TIME revealed its annual list of the Best Inventions, which features 200 product, technologies and innovations changing our lives, there was a surprising mention of Brane Audio's Brane X portable speaker as a winner in the Entertainment & Gaming category. As audioXpress and Voice Coil readers learned earlier - and coincidently James Croft writes about in Voice Coil November 2024 - the company's Repel-Attract-Driver (RAD) that is part of the Brane X design, is indeed the first effective embodiment of a negative-spring woofer that bends Hofmann’s Iron Law.
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Knowles Teams up with Mimi to Deliver Personalized Audio for Breggz
by Joao Martins

Knowles Teams up with Mimi to Deliver Personalized Audio for Breggz

Since Dutch company Breggz introduced the concept of its luxury wireless hearables at CES 2024, the company has been evolving the project in partnership with key technology providers. The now called Breggz ZOHN-1 in-ears are leveraging Bragi's platform and Audio App Store concept to offer a future upgrade path, with new exciting options. Among those is the possibility to personalize the response to each user, thanks to a partnership with Mimi Hearing Technologies and Knowles, which supplies the balanced armature drivers
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