MediaTek has introduced its newest full-featured chipset - MT8516 - designed to enable Voice Assistant Devices (VADs) and smart speakers, including the Google Assistant. MediaTek...
Dialog Semiconductor has announced that the recently-launched Pokémon GO Plus features its SmartBond DA14580 Bluetooth low energy system-on-chip (SoC).
AMICCOM, located in Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park, announces new Bluetooth Low Energy product, named A8107SiP. A8107SiP is a silicon-in-package (SiP) product and it includes A8107 and...
The home audio market (wireless speakers, soundbars, Hi-Fi systems, A/V receivers and speaker docks) grew by 22% to ship 71 million units. Trade value also grew by 22%, generating...
Thread, a new networking protocol for household appliances initiated by Google's Nest Labs, looks to compete with the ZHA (ZigBee Home Automation) standard, but there is a possibility...
Taiwan-based IT retail chain Tsann Kuen will adopt iBeacon technology in its stores nationwide to promote products and provide mobile payment services. iBeacon technology is able...
With the IT market shifting from PCs to mobile devices, there has been an increased appetite for support for Wi-Fi and wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and near field communication...
Bluetooth shipments broke an annual two billion shipments in 2012 and are set to surpass three billion shipped during 2015 and four billion during 2018. "Cumulatively, over 19...
The market for Bluetooth low energy chips is expected to grow by leaps and bounds in 2013 and 2014 thanks to increasing support for Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth Smart Ready standards...
The global market for Bluetooth Smart ICs that enable low-power wireless pairing of devices is set for remarkable growth in the next five years, with shipments expected to rise nearly...
Bluetooth Smart node devices accounted for less than 10% of total Bluetooth 4.0 devices shipped in 2012. However, as device vendors have embraced the technology a wider ecosystem...
While smartwatches vary in their processors, software, memory, displays, memory as well as other components, Bluetooth appears to be the one feature that most vendors agree as a standard,...
Bluetooth earphone vendor Plantronics is planning to enter new consumer-related industries such as gaming headphones and wearable IT devices, and has recently established an R&D...
By 2018, ABI Research expects annual home automation device shipments to exceed 351 million, growing at a CAGR of 78%. ZigBee dominated IEEE 802.15.4 and claimed the top share of...
More than half of all wireless-enabled industrial automation equipment shipped in 2012 used Bluetooth or 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology, with the two entrenched standards...
