Featuring Knowles SmartMic (IA610), the world’s first microphone
with an integrated DSP enabling low power always-on voice-wake
Knowles Corporation (NYSE: KN), a market leader and global
provider of advanced micro-acoustic, audio processing, and
precision device solutions, today announced its solution was
selected by global smartphone leader vivo for its new flagship vivo
NEX AI (artificial intelligence) smartphone. The Knowles SmartMic
(IA610) is a technology breakthrough combining the company’s market
leading, high-performance SiSonicTM MEMS technology with a
state-of-the-art audio DSP into a single, miniature package. The
result is a flexible, highly integrated microphone solution ideal
for applications that require always-on voice-wake as well as low
power voice control. This includes mobile phones, headsets and
battery operated consumer products as well as plugged-in devices
requiring energy compliance. The Knowles SmartMic is the world’s
first device to offer audio edge processing and lower system power
in a ultra compact MEMS microphone package.
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With voice rapidly emerging as the primary user interface, the
vivo NEX smartphone incorporates “Jovi AI”, an artificial
intelligence assistant. The Knowles SmartMic plays a key role,
enabling voice wake with voice command that keeps the system asleep
for longer periods of time, saving battery life and enabling a
better user experience. It’s the first microphone to incorporate an
audio processor with custom-built machine learning (ML) support for
audio applications and ML-optimized algorithms to achieve superior
performance.
Unlike competing voice-wake solutions that only work with one
particular application processor (AP) or architecture, the Knowles
SmartMic enables smartphone customers to use the same solution
across their entire product portfolio, regardless of the AP or
architecture, resulting in faster time-to-market, lower development
costs, and a consistent user-experience across their devices.
Vivo’s Vice President, Zhou Wei said, “Vivo collaborated with
our strategic partner Knowles to customize a professional voice
processor chip. This enables a solution to realize always-on under
low power mode. In addition, it provides voice identification
technology which allows the vivo NEX phone to recognize the owner’s
wake up command more accurately. We look forward to working with
Knowles in the future to offer world class audio and AI features to
help differentiate our products in the competitive smartphone
market.”
“Vivo is a true innovator in the smartphone space. Their
approach to AI/ML in phones is impressive and we value the
collaboration we have with them. From the beginning, vivo
understood the value of adding audio edge-processing to their
phones and we are excited about the partnership, not just for this
project using the Knowles SmartMic in the vivo NEX phone, but for
others in the future,” said Jeffrey Niew, President and CEO of
Knowles.
For additional information about Knowles’ Intelligent Audio
solutions, including its smart microphones and discrete multi-core
advanced audio processors, visit www.Knowles.com.
About Knowles Corporation
Knowles Corporation (NYSE: KN) is a market leader and
global provider of advanced micro-acoustic, audio processing, and
precision device solutions, serving the mobile consumer
electronics, communications, medical, military, aerospace, and
industrial markets. Knowles uses its leading position in
MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) microphones and strong
capabilities in audio processing technologies to optimize audio
systems and improve the user experience in mobile, ear, and IoT
applications. Knowles is also the leader in acoustic
components used in hearing aids and has a strong position in
high-end capacitors. Knowles’ focus on the customer, combined with
unique technology, proprietary manufacturing techniques, rigorous
testing and global scale, enables it to deliver innovative
solutions that optimize the user experience. Founded in 1946 and
headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, Knowles has
employees in 11 countries around the world. For more information,
visit knowles.com. The IA610 includes a Low Power Sound
Detector (LPSD), an audio processing algorithm with acoustic
activity detection licensed as an IP block from Sensory, Inc.
which device manufacturers can request to be enabled.
About Vivo
A global smartphone brand focused on introducing
perfect sound quality and ultimate photography with cutting-edge
technology, vivo develops innovative and stylish products for young
people. We now have over two hundred million users and are one of
the preferred brands of young people around the world. As an
Official Sponsor of the FIFA World Cup™, vivo believes in the
importance of encouraging young people to embrace self-expression
and an energetic lifestyle. More information about our innovative
smartphones can be found at www.vivo.com.
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on current plans, expectations, forecasts, and assumptions
involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes
or results to differ materially from those outcomes or results that
are projected, anticipated, or implied in these statements. These
risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: MEMS
microphone demand from our largest customers, in particular, two
large North American OEM customers, a large Korean OEM customer and
Chinese customers; the success and rate of multi-microphone and
smart microphone adoption and market adoption of our “intelligent
audio” solutions; our ability to stem or overcome price erosion in
our segments; fluctuations in our stock's market price;
fluctuations in operating results and cash flows; our ability to
prevent or identify quality issues in our products or to promptly
remedy any such issues that are identified; the timing of OEM
product launches; downward pressure on the average selling prices
for our products; risks associated with increasing our inventories
in advance of anticipated orders by customers; macroeconomic
conditions, both in the U.S. and internationally; foreign currency
exchange rate fluctuations; our ability to achieve continued
reductions in our operating expenses; our ability to qualify our
products and facilities with customers; our ability to obtain,
enforce, defend or monetize our intellectual property rights;
increases in the costs of critical raw materials and components;
availability of raw materials and components; managing new product
ramps and introductions for our customers; our dependence on a
limited number of large customers; our ability to maintain and
expand our existing relationships with leading OEMs in order to
maintain and increase our revenue; increasing competition and new
entrants in the market for our products; our ability to develop new
or enhanced products or technologies in a timely manner that
achieve market acceptance; our reliance on third parties to
manufacture, assemble, and test our products and sub-components;
changes in tax laws or our ability to utilize our tax structure and
any net operating losses and other factors that we may not have
currently identified or quantified; and other risks, relevant
factors, and uncertainties identified in our Annual Report on Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, subsequent
Reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and our other filings we make with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Knowles disclaims any intention or obligation
to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
required by law.
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