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Microsoft Game Studios licenses VoN solution from APTX
APTX (Belfast, UK) has successfully integrated, tested and commissioned a wideband, full-duplex (2-way) voice-over-network (VoN) system for Microsoft Game Studios (Redmond, Wash.) which is optimized for massively multi-player online games (MMOG).
Higher growth predicted for MEMS microphones
Market research firm iSuppli raised its global microelectromechanical systems microphone forecast, citing the emergence of active noise cancellation technology through the introductions of Google's Nexus One and Motorola's Droid smartphones.
Displays shine a light on Apple tablet
Speculation is running high the day before Apple Inc. is expected to roll out a tablet computer some say could help launch a new category, but it's unclear if the key component needed to drive the category forward—a high-resolution, low-power color display—is ready for prime time.
TI Q4 net soars on higher analog IC demand
Texas Instruments Inc.'s net income rose sharply in the fourth quarter on benefits from higher analog demand, improving manufacturing utilization as well as lower overall costs and the company sees sales rising sequentially in the traditionally slower first quarter.
DirecTV adopts MoCA for home networking
DirecTV will use home networking chips from Entropic Communications Inc. in a deal that adds support from a major satellite TV player for the technology of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance which to date has mainly been used in set-top boxes for Verizon's Fios IPTV service.
Audium appoints Chris Travis as Chief Technology Officer
Audium Semiconductor (Bristol, UK) has appointed Chris Travis as the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
ISSCC 2010 goes beyond 'more and better digital'
There's lots of interesting analog design, topology, and performance at big solid-state event
Sidense gains design win in Audium audio amp
Sidense Corp. (Ottawa, Canada), a develop of antifuse-based non-volatile memory, has announced that its one-time programmable (OTP) technology was included in Audium's recently announced high efficiency AS1001 audio power amplifier chip.
Analog ASICs show flattish CAGR, says Gartner
Revenue for application-specific analog integrated circuits (ICs) totaled $28.1 billion in 2008 and will reach $32.2 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Gartner. This corresponds to a CAGR of about 2.75 percent.
Virage, IDT partner on audio for PC codecs
Virage Logic partnered with Integrated Device Technology to offer its Sonic Focus suite of audio enrichment software on the IDT codecs sold to PC manufacturers worldwide.
Audio specialists cooperate for wireless speaker development
Audio design engineering companies APTX, Bang & Olufsen ICEpower, and Bluegiga Technologies have collaborated to produce an integrated module reference design and evaluation kit for speaker OEMs seeking to upgrade existing passive products to wireless active systems.
Company cranks portable wireless audio at CES
Eleven Engineering Inc. will jump into the pool of providers of wireless audio streaming technology at the Consumer Electronics Show with a set of dongles and speakers using its proprietary 2.4 GHz technology.
Avnera chip provides multi-point HD audio connections
Fabless chip maker Avnera unveils the world's first multi-point wireless solution to connect up to 10 audio devices from music players to speakers, according to the company.
Alliance drives Ethernet into cars, professional media
The AVnu Alliance, an ad hoc industry group, will drive a set of IEEE standards that could bring Ethernet to new automotive and professional audio/video markets and enhance tomorrow's home networks.
Sharc DSP helps pack audio recording studio into a laptop
An audio recording studio has been packed into a laptop computer card by harnessing Analog Devices' Sharc floating-point DSP. Universal Audio's Solo ExpressCard can mix and master at sample rates from 44.1 to 192 kHz, and emulates analog effects from vintage devices made by such companies as Moog, Neve, Roland and SPL.
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