When you look at your headphones, earbuds, or smartglasses, odds are you don't think about the chips inside. Here's why you should.

The noise of someone chomping on chips can be irritating, especially if it’s directly in your ear, on say, a voice chat or a Zoom call. Voices – and crunching – are amplified when people are using ...

The new S3 and S5 chips enable the headphone/earbud/speaker side of Qualcomm’s evolving Snapdragon Sound platform, which the company introduced in 2021. Snapdragon Sound isn’t a technology — it’s more ...

Qualcomm says its latest chips will bring high-end features like spatial audio, dynamic head tracking, and lossless audio to Bluetooth headphones and speakers starting next year. I’m PCMag’s managing ...

Once upon a time, computers didn’t really have enough resources to play back high-quality audio. It took too much RAM and too many CPU cycles and it was just altogether too difficult. Instead, they ...