MUNICH, Germany — With a new audio chip series, German semiconductor manufacturer Micronas tackles the needs of stereo equipment vendors. The Customizable Modular Processing (CMP) technology ...

I don't own any new motherboards, and am wondering how the on-board audio chips are now. Which motherboards have decent on-board sound chips on them? How does such sound compare, in your opinion, to ...

The QCC3086 chipset reduces Bluetooth audio latency down to 19ms – 23ms. The chipset is built upon the Qualcomm S3 Gen 2 Sound Platform. USB devices will be able to take advantage of Snapdragon Sound ...

THX has announced the development of a new audio amplifier chip which the company claims offers “the world’s lowest levels of distortion and noise,” along with “incredibly low power consumption,” ...

If you were lucky and had well-off parents in the early 1980s, your home computer had a sound chip on board and could make music. There were a variety of chips on the market that combined in some form ...

Cirrus Logic Inc. (NASDAQ:CRUS), a leading provider of high-precision analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, has been making waves in the semiconductor industry with its strong performance and ...

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is going all out to attack the smart-home opportunity. Back in May, the chipmaker had released a mesh networking platform and reference router design that can integrate a ...

VIA and DTS have joined forces to integrate the latter's Surround Sensation Ultra PC plus Head Tracker headphone technology into the former's Vinyl VT1610 Audio Codec chip. Together, they offer mobile ...

Technology editor Bill Wong checks out Nuvoton’s latest audio chip, the ISD2130. Nuvoton’s ISD2130 Digital ChipCorder handles audio playback in the consumer and industrial markets targeting ...