• ELECTRONICS
    MediaTek MT25211, MT2523 SoCs Launched for Health and Wearable Companies in India

    MediaTek MT25211, MT2523 SoCs Launched for Health and Wearable Companies in India Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek on Thursday announced two new system-on-chips (SoCs) specifically targeted towards the health, fitness and wearables market in the country. The MT2511 is MediaTek’s first bio-sensing analog front-end (AFE) chipset that is in-built with an exclusive heart beat interval technology […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Intel SoCs Get Built-in Speech Recognition; May Help Apple Bring Siri to OS X

    Intel SoCs will soon have native support for speech recognition features. This capability comes as the chipmaker partners with Sensory, a Silicon Valley-based company focused on machine learning techniques. The announcement further intensifies the speculation about Apple bringing Siri to its OS Xdesktop operating system. Dubbed TrulyHandsfree, the always-on, always-listening voice triggering component and low-power […]