January, 2013, CES, Las Vegas—We talked with Judy Chen, president of MHL about the Mobile High-Definition Link Consortium about their efforts to expand their footprint. The organization is working to establish technology standards for audio-video connectivity for mobile devices. The phone is the first device to include this interface as a integral part of the…
October 2012 – At the 133rd AES Convention in San Francisco, they held a multi-day track program on gaming audio. One of the recurring themes and topics was the incorporation of spatial sound. Just like 3D has brought a deeper level of immersion into the graphics of the video games, surround sound and spatial audio…
October 27, 2012, AES Convention, San Francisco—Amin Taghipour from the Fraunhofer Institute’s International Audiolabs presented new techniques for psycho-acoustic models that allow better quantization and threshold detection. This perceptual audio coding provides more listener independence. The threshold for quiet is changed by simultaneous making effects. You need to have dynamic gain and frequency conditions to…
October 27, 2012, AES Convention, San Francisco—A panel looked at the technologies and capabilities of mind-controlled interactive music. These active input technologies enhance the contextual responsiveness and reality of a game. Adam Gazzaley from UCSF moderated the panel. Panel members included Nicolas Tomasino from IGN Entertainment, Al Gurlalei from UCSF, Kyle Machulis from Nonpolynomial Labs,…
October 2012 – At the Linley Processor conference, we had a chance to talk to Chris Rowen of Tensilica regarding their overall position in second place in the CPU/DSP IP Licensing market with tier licensees shipment of their 2 Billionth IP core. The run rate on the cores – called DPUs for Dataplane Processing Units,…
August 2012 – In addition to all of the graphics on display at SigGraph, they held a session called “gooving” which focused on audio. There were a number of products being displayed from universities and industry that were on the addressing the challenging issue of virtual instruments and synthesis in combination with live instruments. Live…
March 2012- San Francisco, CA – At the Game Developer Conference in SF, Turtle Beach was showing their marketshare leading wireless headphone products and thier unique features that have been implemented for developers. The company, which has been a leader in the audio products since 1975 (pre-gen 1 of the gaming industry) currently has over…
January 2012 – At CES this year Maxim introduced a new family of consumer electronics system ICs, we recently had a chance to catch up with Vijay Ullal, Group President, Consumer & Automotive Solutions away from the craziness of the show to talk about the new TINI product line and the directions at Maxim. The…
January 11,2012, CES, Las Vegas—Bang & Olufsen presented an outline for the company for the next five years and introduced new products. The company is looking to reinvigorate itself after a few years in the doldrums. They stated that sales were up 22 percent in the past year to $500M. Some company changes included a…