Silicon Image-Owned Wireless Group Plans Compliance Testing

Envisioning a day in the near future when "all of the electronics will be out of the panel" and TV panels will be "even thinner" than they are today, the Wireless Speaker and Audio Association is attending CES this week with the hopes of padding its member roster of speaker makers, semiconductor companies and electronics manufacturers. The group, a subsidiary of HDMI licensor Silicon Image, was formed last month with the charter to "foster interoperability compliance testing between CE devices and high-performance wireless speakers."

WiSA will develop a common certification platform so wireless "slave devices," or speakers, can operate with any WiSA-compatible wireless master or CE devices from any manufacturer, Jim Venable, president of the WiSA Association, told Consumer Electronics Daily. "We're at an inflection point in the ... Log in to view full article.

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