As it turns out, audio hardware, particularly on the high end, has been no less hard hit.
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It provides more power to headphones and superior sound than the audio hardware built into Apple devices.
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With the help of architects and industrial engineers, Beatpower has managed to concoct particularly striking audio hardware.
The others include multi-touch patent 7, 479, 949 (which was tentatively invalidated) along with two other patents (RE41, 922 and 7, 912, 501) relating to graphic display elements and audio hardware detection.
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Inspired by tactical aviator headsets and armed with total audio immersion, Razer's newest piece of audio hardware comes as a Razer-branded version of the popular Battlefield 3 Razer BlackShark, a headset that the company developed from the ground up for the Battlefield franchise and released earlier this year at E3.
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It also features full support for HTML5, offering developers a chance to create features like WebM and HD video, 3D graphic rendering with WebGL, hardware acceleration and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound.
Immediately recognizable by its stunning design and glowing red Creative Sound Core3D processor, the Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion sound card provides hardware-accelerated THX TruStudio Pro audio technologies for unparalleled audio playback quality.
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The solution includes an Audience Advanced Voice Processor core and a hardware accelerator engine, optimized to run computationally intensive audio algorithms with low power consumption.
Using Bluetooth, the hardware can connect to iOS and Android devices and pipes audio from any app through a car's sound system.
While it is possible to refine audio quality through software, Audience specializes in chips because it says hardware allows more computational power for its complex sound processing.
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The VIA EPIA-P910 Pico-ITX supports up 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory, HD audio, HDMI, VGA and LVDS display connectivity as well as a high performance hardware HD video decoder in the shape of the latest VIA Chromotion 5.0 video processor.
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Dolby has always had strong ties to hardware manufacturers but few to music publishers, who can make or break digital audio formats.
Dolby has always had strong ties to hardware manufacturers but few ties to the music publishers who can make or break digital audio formats.
Spanning multiple computing, communication and entertainment platforms, Logitech's combined hardware and software enable or enhance digital navigation, music and video entertainment, gaming, social networking, audio and video communication over the Internet, video security and home-entertainment control.
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