TWS

Google shares Pixel Buds Pro international details: Countries, prices, and color availability

By SeongCheol_Jang / May 24, 2022
Posted in

At this year’s Google I/O, a new TWS earbuds has been announced. The newly announced Pixel Buds Pro is Google’s first TWS earbuds with ANC. The previous version, Pixel Buds 2, was based on TWS SoC from Bestechnic (BES2300) and it is quite interesting to see which TWS IC platforms are used for Pixel Buds […]

Read More

MEMS speakers are replacing balanced armature speakers

By SeongCheol_Jang / May 16, 2022
Posted in

MEMS speakers are about to appear in actual consumer products, especially in small form factor devices such as TWS earbuds and headphones. Efforts are also on the way to enable MEMS speakers in a larger form factor devices such as TVs, etc.  USound is one of the leading companies in the MEMS speaker area and […]

Read More

Bosch barometric pressure sensor raises the bar for accuracy and performance in mobile devices

By Peter Cooney / April 14, 2022
Posted in

This press release caught my eye as it demonstrates a few interesting trends. Firstly, this is a radically different type of component, Bosch has transitioned from a piezo based to a capacitive MEMS based sensor, which has enabled it to reduce power drain and increase accuracy significantly. It seems most likely that this component will […]

Read More

JLab’s new JBuds Air Pro earbuds surprising value and features

By SeongCheol_Jang / April 13, 2022
Posted in

California based audio company JLab is releasing a new TWS earbuds that cost less than 1/3 of Apple Airpods or other premium brand’s TWS earbuds.   One of the interesting points of the new Air Pro earbuds from JLab is its battery life with 32 hours of listening time which is about 30% more than the […]

Read More

MediaTek is getting ready to spin off its Airoha subsidiary

By SeongCheol_Jang / April 13, 2022
Posted in

In the past several years, Airoha became quite successful in Bluetooth audio related markets and more recently, it has had significant success in the TWS earbuds market, with customers including Sony, Beats by Apple, JBL by Harman, Skullcandy and Xiaomi.  Qualcomm’s once large dominant position in the Bluetooth headset market (through its CSR acquisition) has […]

Read More

Syntiant raises $55 million, ships 20 million+ chips

By SeongCheol_Jang / April 4, 2022
Posted in ,

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 […]

Read More

Yamaha launches TW-E5B wireless earbuds

By Nick Wright / March 16, 2022
Posted in

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 […]

Read More

Categories

Scroll to Top