Qualcomm inks HD mobile audio deal with SRS Labs

March 22, 2011 — 9:29am ET | By Jason Ankeny

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ORLANDO, Fla.--Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) has inked a licensing agreement with consumer electronics audio solutions provider SRS Labs to incorporate the firm's technologies into Snapdragon chipsets to deliver HD-quality audio experiences to mobile devices.

Qualcomm will license SRS Labs audio APIs including its OpenSL ES and OpenAL solutions for mobile devices--it will also make available SRS IPs to its Snapdragon dual-core CPU chipsets, including SRS TruMedia, WOW HD, CS Headphone and SRS TruGaming and a 3D positioning technology optimized expressly for mobile gaming. SRS Labs notes its mobile technologies have already shipped in several million Android and Windows Phone 7 devices.

Earlier this month, Qualcomm announced plans to team with digital gaming publisher Gameloft to create enhanced mobile titles for Android devices. Existing Gameloft releases like Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles have leveraged Qualcomm's Adreno graphics processing unit--per terms of the new deal, the firms will expand their relationship across Qualcomm's family of Snapdragon dual-core processors, delivering titles like SpiderMan Total Mayhem HD, Real Football 2011 HD, GT Racing: Motor Academy HD and Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus that incorporate advanced multimedia capabilities like Dolby 5.1, SRS and other surround sound technologies, Adobe Flash 10 hardware acceleration and video accelerators for full HD 1080p encode and decode.

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