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CES 2020, Day 2: AMD vs. Intel | NXP’s Lars Reger | A Singular Bluetooth IC

EE Times Current · 8 Jan 2020 · 21m

What this episode covers

NXP CTO Lars Reger explains the company's strategy to revive Ultra Wide Band (UWB) as a universal key for smart devices, leveraging storytelling to align 10,000 engineers around a vision of sensing, thinking, and connecting. Atmosic Solutions demonstrates its energy-harvesting Bluetooth IC, which can power devices like asset trackers and door locks without batteries by harvesting RF, thermal, or motion energy. Pow Audio CEO Greg Stein showcases the 'Wave Bloom' technology in a squishable portable speaker that expands to increase sound chamber volume. The episode concludes with a recap of CES 2020 press events, contrasting AMD's strong GPU and CPU announcements with Intel's underwhelming silicon reveals and futuristic but power-hungry sports motion capture demo.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
NXP, Atmosic Solutions, Pow Audio, AMD, Intel
Products
Wave Bloom
Chips
Tiger Lake, DG1
Also
Ultra Wide Band

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