Syntiant raises $55 million, ships 20 million+ chips
Syntiant is a start-up company founded in 2017 focusing on developing always on, machine learning based processor solutions. Investors for Syntiant includes a whole spectrum of tech industry companies such as Amazon, Bosch, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, and Renasas and more. The NDP100 chip (NDP = Neural Decision Processor), from Syntiant achieves industry leading ultra-low power […]
Yamaha launches TW-E5B wireless earbuds
Yamaha decided to release their new headphones on World Hearing Day. This falls in line with Yamaha’s “Thinking About Hearing Health” campaign. The campaign highlights how listening to loud music over prolonged periods of time will damage hearing. Yamaha re-entered the headphone market in 2019. All their TWS earbuds released since then have incorporated Yamaha’s […]
xMEMS releases Montara Pro
Montara Pro by xMEMS is a MEMS speaker which uses DynamicVent which is a patented technology. The technology allows earbud designers to have the best of both worlds when it comes to open and closed earbuds. The unique speaker design means that Montara Pros have a flat frequency response reaching 115dB SPL below 1khz and […]
Turtle Beach’s gaming earbuds
Turtle Beach announced a new pair of gaming focused earbuds on March 14th that will be available for order on the 21st of March. The biggest surprise here is that the new earbuds, despite being targeted at low latency gaming, do not include Bluetooth 5.2, and therefore also do not include LE Audio. The new […]
Patent published for piezo MEMS microphone by AAC Technologies
This piezo MEMS Microphone patent was filed back in 2020 and was granted 1 March 2022. “The invention provides a piezoelectric micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) microphone includes a base with a cavity and a piezoelectric diaphragm arranged on the base.” Right now, this appears to be the only significant competitor device to Vesper MEMS products. Whether […]
Sonova completes acquisition of the Sennheiser Consumer Division and forms a new business
Sonova is one of the largest suppliers of medical hearing aid devices globally and the latest news about the acquisition of Sennheiser’s consumer division is quite interesting in several aspects. Sonova has quite a dominant position in medical grade hearing aids devices but they are not consumer friendly, in the sense that Sonova heading aids […]
Sonos Roam SL drops the mic with a $159 price tag and all the portability
Recent Sonos Roam SL release from Sonos is quite interesting in two ways. The first point is that the new Sonos Roam SL drops the built-in microphone meaning it is also dropping the voice assistant feature. The second point is that by dropping the built-in microphone, the Sonos Roam SL will also drop Sonos Trueplay. […]
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