Skyworks Solutions, Inc. announced that its advanced audio processing and cognitive wireless solutions are enabling high performance sound bars from market leaders including Harman Kardon/JBL, Panasonic, Polk, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, VIZIO and Yamaha. Skyworks’ analog system-on-chips (ASoCs) combine breakthrough audio/voice circuits, highly efficient power management ICs and custom hardware accelerators to enable smart acoustic signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) features in audio systems. Through collaboration with key customers, Skyworks has played an important role in pioneering a new era of plug-and-play entertainment systems for the connected home. Through its 2018 acquisition of Avnera, Skyworks offers market-leading audio processors and cognitive wireless chipsets that power point-to-point and point-to-multi-point wireless connections in addition to synchronized multi-channel audio capabilities. Products include proprietary protocols for global hardware support and radio functionality with best-in-class co-existence for popular wireless standards. Skyworks’ solutions provide fixed and low-latency, uncompressed audio and interference-free transmission which are imperative for applications such as wireless home entertainment speakers, sound bars and gaming consoles.