NXP and Widex Bring Industry’s Most Power-efficient, Wireless Audio Streaming Hearing Aids to Market

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands and COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 06, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI) and Widex, one of the world’s leading hearing aid producers, announced that they have collaborated to develop, test and integrate NXP’s NxH2003 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) audio streaming SoC into Widex BEYOND™ hearing aids. The two companies worked closely together throughout the product development cycle, merging the best of hearing aid engineering and wireless audio streaming semiconductor technology, to deliver hearing aid devices that can stream wireless audio from an iOS device, consuming only 2.8 mA current at 1.2 Volts, which is best in industry. This allows end users t...