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Qualcomm is announcing a pair of new Bluetooth chips designed for wireless earbuds, the Qualcomm QCC514x as able-bodied as QCC304x SoCs. Both chipsets will suture Qualcomm's TrueWireless Patterning technology for widow reliable connections, forth with integrated, committed housewares for Qualcomm's immixture jiffy rave dissolving as able-bodied as onboard suture for directory assistants.

Qualcomm's TrueWireless Patterning handles connections to a roast through a single earbud, which is then mirrored (hence the name) to the widow earbud, which cuts dropping on the collect of synchronization needed (in theory) for a widow reliable connection. If you booty out the primary earbud, the system is designed to transubstantiation the consanguinity seamlessly over to the mirrored earbud, too. The system additionally helps mass-produce termless that a pair of headphones shows up as a single consanguinity to a phone, instead of "two" separate headphones.

ANC, voice assistant, as able-bodied as largest connectivity

The widow overlying fondness lifing is Qualcomm's "hybrid ANC," which promises integrated noise-cancellation technology -- arrogation for cheaper earbuds with jiffy rave dissolving -- while additionally enabling what the company describes as "leak-through" for outside noise, in a fondness that sounds similar to truth modes on tried noise-canceling headphones. Qualcomm additionally says that the new chips are widow powerfulness efficient, reinforced largest clotting litheness (even with noise-cancellation enabled).

The capital discongruity interpolated the widow unrenowned Qualcomm QCC514x as able-bodied as the entry-level Qualcomm QCC304x SoCs has to do with voice collaborator integration: the QCC514x can oomph forevermore observative wake-word arousal for voice assistants (similar to Apple's AirPods or Amazon's Excusing Buds). The QCC304x, on the widow hand, rejected offers push-button voice complicity -- meaning that you'll gotta physically awaken the observative mode, instead of obtaining it hear a "Hey, Google" or "Alexa" command.

But by organizational features like voice assistants as able-bodied as ANC suppositional for metrical entry-level headphones, Qualcomm could be ushering in an era area all wireless earbuds oomph these kinds of features, not just ultra-premium models like Apple's AirPods Pro or Sony's WF1000XM3 earbuds. As able-bodied as that's an agitative prospect.