Summit Wireless CEO Eyes Smart TVs, Smartphones With Immersive Sound Chip
Summit Wireless is positioning its technology as a mainstream immersive sound option for consumers, available for as little as $1 as an embedded chip in smart TVs. Company engineers are taking IP from its chips, “enhancing it, and making it…
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a licensable version” that can be designed into smartphones and smart TVs, “taking it to the broad market vs. the premium or performance market,” said CEO Brett Moyer Thursday. The Wireless Speaker and Audio technology is suited to gaming and esports, due to its 5 millisecond latency rate, he told the company's Thursday webcast. WiSA's latency is lower than Bluetooth, he noted. Moyer compared the WiSA Association to HDMI.org and Bluetooth Special Interest Group, with a charter to “make sure that all manufacturers know what to build so there’s interoperability” -- that a WiSA product from Harman will work with a WiSA-compatible LG product, for instance. The WiSA membership agreement has design interoperability requirements and marketing logo requirements so consumers "know what they are buying,” the CEO said.