Audience has announced that Apple is unlikely to use its earSmart noise suppression technology in iPhone 5.
Back in 2010, Apple had used Audience's low power voice processor for noise cancellation in iPhone 4. Then in 2011, Apple integrated a new and improved version of Audience's earSmart noise reduction technology directly into its A5 system-on-chip, which powers iPhone 4S. It was considered one of the key reasons why older iOS devices did not get Siri.
Audience provided the following update on its business outlook for the third quarter of 2012:
Audience sells
processors and licenses its processor IP to Apple Inc. and certain of
its subsidiaries (collectively, OEM) for inclusion in the OEM's mobile
phones pursuant to a Master Development and Supply Agreement (MDSA).
Pursuant to a statement of work under the MDSA, amended in March 2012,
Audience developed and licensed a new generation of processor IP for use
in the OEM's devices. However, the OEM is not obligated to use
Audience's processor IP.
Audience now
believes that it is unlikely that the OEM will enable Audience's
processor IP in its next generation mobile phone. Audience is not aware
of any intended changes by this OEM to its use of Audience's processors
or processor IP in prior generations of the OEM's mobile phones.
It is not clear which voice processing
technology Apple plans to use in iPhone 5. It remains to be seen if
Apple will be using voice processing technology from some other vendor
or it has developed it in-house to reduce the cost of the iPhone.
Audience stock is down 54.93% in after-hours trading at the time of writing this post.
[via Audience]
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