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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Haier and KEF Announce Global Partnership to Co-Engineer Immersive Audio for Haier Smart TVs
QINGDAO, China, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Haier, a global leader in household appliances, today officially announces a strategic partnership with KEF, the world-renowned audio technology brand. Haier and KEF will jointly engineer the audio systems for Haier's latest Mini LED and QLED TV models, including the Haier TV M96, M92, M80 and S90 series. These models[1] will be launched throughout 2025, covering key markets such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Together, Haier and KEF will deliver an unparalleled home entertainment experience to consumers around the world. Under this exciting partnership, the sound systems of these Mini LED and QLED TV series are co-designed by Haier and KEF, and have been meticulously tuned by the same KEF engineering team responsible for their flagship loudspeakers, including Blade and The Reference. Leveraging KEF's over 60 years of acoustic engineering expertise, these Haier TV models seamlessly integrate high-end audio experiences, making it more accessible and convenient for home entertainment scenarios. The Haier M96 series of 4K QD-Mini LED TVs, the flagship model for 2025, made its debut at the 2025 Australian Open earlier this year. Its enhanced visual and audio capabilities captivated millions of tennis enthusiasts at Melbourne Park and central Melbourne through Haier TV's fan engagement booths and activities. Benefiting from KEF's expert tuning, the M96 series boasts a 2.2.2-channel audio system for the 75-inch and 85-inch models, and an impressive 6.2.2-channel system for the 100-inch model, delivering a truly high-fidelity audio experience, right in the living room. The Haier M80 series of 4K Mini LED TVs, which officially launched in India in April, is scheduled to roll out across key markets in the coming months. Co-engineered with KEF, the Haier TV M80 series delivers clear highs, rich mids, and deep, elastic bass through its 2.1-channel speaker system. Available in multiple sizes—85, 75, 65, and 55 inches—the M80 series caters to a variety of home entertainment needs. "We are honored to partner with KEF on a global scale," said Junguang Liu, Vice President of Haier Smart Home, General Manager of Audio-Visual BU. "This collaboration seamlessly merges our smart home expertise with KEF's renowned audio technology, delivering an immersive and high-quality sound experience. Together, we are bringing next-level home entertainment to our consumers worldwide." Grace Lo, president and head of global marketing at KEF, commented: "We are delighted with our partnership with Haier TV. By combining KEF's acoustic technology with Haier TV's innovative capabilities in the field of home appliances, we are poised to provide users with a new immersive audio-visual experience with their latest TVs. We look forward to collaborating on more breakthrough audio-visual products together in the near future." This partnership marks the beginning of a shared journey. Both Haier and KEF are dedicated to elevating home entertainment and delivering unparalleled experiences. As a result of this innovative collaboration, consumers can anticipate more Haier TV products featuring KEF co-engineered audio in the near future. [1] The availability of specific models in certain markets may be subject to change. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Haier Smart Home Sign in to access your portfolio
Cision Canada
20-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Haier and KEF Announce Global Partnership to Co-Engineer Immersive Audio for Haier Smart TVs
QINGDAO, China, May 20, 2025 /CNW/ -- Haier, a global leader in household appliances, today officially announces a strategic partnership with KEF, the world-renowned audio technology brand. Haier and KEF will jointly engineer the audio systems for Haier's latest Mini LED and QLED TV models, including the Haier TV M96, M92, M80 and S90 series. These models [1] will be launched throughout 2025, covering key markets such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Together, Haier and KEF will deliver an unparalleled home entertainment experience to consumers around the world. Under this exciting partnership, the sound systems of these Mini LED and QLED TV series are co-designed by Haier and KEF, and have been meticulously tuned by the same KEF engineering team responsible for their flagship loudspeakers, including Blade and The Reference. Leveraging KEF's over 60 years of acoustic engineering expertise, these Haier TV models seamlessly integrate high-end audio experiences, making it more accessible and convenient for home entertainment scenarios. The Haier M96 series of 4K QD-Mini LED TVs, the flagship model for 2025, made its debut at the 2025 Australian Open earlier this year. Its enhanced visual and audio capabilities captivated millions of tennis enthusiasts at Melbourne Park and central Melbourne through Haier TV's fan engagement booths and activities. Benefiting from KEF's expert tuning, the M96 series boasts a 2.2.2-channel audio system for the 75-inch and 85-inch models, and an impressive 6.2.2-channel system for the 100-inch model, delivering a truly high-fidelity audio experience, right in the living room. The Haier M80 series of 4K Mini LED TVs, which officially launched in India in April, is scheduled to roll out across key markets in the coming months. Co-engineered with KEF, the Haier TV M80 series delivers clear highs, rich mids, and deep, elastic bass through its 2.1-channel speaker system. Available in multiple sizes—85, 75, 65, and 55 inches—the M80 series caters to a variety of home entertainment needs. "We are honored to partner with KEF on a global scale," said Junguang Liu, Vice President of Haier Smart Home, General Manager of Audio-Visual BU. "This collaboration seamlessly merges our smart home expertise with KEF's renowned audio technology, delivering an immersive and high-quality sound experience. Together, we are bringing next-level home entertainment to our consumers worldwide." Grace Lo, president and head of global marketing at KEF, commented: "We are delighted with our partnership with Haier TV. By combining KEF's acoustic technology with Haier TV's innovative capabilities in the field of home appliances, we are poised to provide users with a new immersive audio-visual experience with their latest TVs. We look forward to collaborating on more breakthrough audio-visual products together in the near future." This partnership marks the beginning of a shared journey. Both Haier and KEF are dedicated to elevating home entertainment and delivering unparalleled experiences. As a result of this innovative collaboration, consumers can anticipate more Haier TV products featuring KEF co-engineered audio in the near future.
Cision Canada
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cision Canada
Haier Launches New 4K Mini-LED TV M80 Series Globally, Featuring KEF Co-engineered Audio
QINGDAO, China, May 8, 2025 /CNW/ -- Haier, a world's leading household appliances brand, is thrilled to introduce its latest television series: the M80 series of 4K Mini-LED TVs. Co-engineered with KEF, the world-renowned audio technology brand, the M80 series is designed to deliver next-level home entertainment experience to consumers worldwide. The Haier M80 series TV is poised to elevate home entertainment with its state-of-the-art 4K Mini-LED display. This innovative technology offers brighter images and deeper contrast compared to traditional LCD TVs, while offering a more affordable option for large screens when compared to OLED TVs. Additionally, the M80 series supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision for superior visual quality and holds TÜV certification for Low Blue Light emissions, protecting viewers' eye health during extended viewing hours. In collaboration with KEF, a globally renowned HiFi audio brand with over 60 years of expertise in acoustic technology, the Haier M80 series delivers unparalleled audio experience. Thanks to KEF's meticulous tuning, the TV ensures clear highs, rich mids, and deep, elastic bass, delivered through its 2.1 channel speaker system comprising two main speakers and a dedicated subwoofer. Enhanced with audio technologies such as Dolby Atmos and dbx-tv, the M80 series serves as a home music hub, offering users a harmonious and magical audio experience. Designed with gaming enthusiasts in mind, the Haier M80 series offers a host of features to enhance gameplay. With a dedicated Game Mode, gamers can select from five picture modes tailored to different game genres: Standard, FPS, RTS, RPG, and RAC. Features such as Shadow Enhancement, which increases brightness in darker areas, and a Cross Hair function for first-person shooters, elevate the gaming experience. The TV also offers various game settings, including Game Mode (LLM), ALLM, refresh rate adjustments, and speaker delay, together ensuring ultra-smooth gameplay. The M80 series supports HDMI 2.1, enabling Dynamic HDR, VRR, ALLM, eARC, and 4K@60Hz, providing a truly immersive gaming journey for users. Empowered by Google TV and HAICAST, the M80 series offers a seamless smart TV experience at home. HAICAST allows high-quality streaming from mobile devices, supporting HD and 4K Ultra HD movies, versatile media sharing like photos, and enhanced gaming experience. Available in four sizes—55, 65, 75, and 85 inches—the M80 series caters to diverse consumer preferences and room sizes, from dynamic living spaces to cozy bedrooms. The Haier M80 series 4K Mini-LED TV is a powerful and versatile smart TV designed to meet the diverse needs of modern users. Boasting its leading-edge Mini-LED display technology, KEF audio enhancements, and dedicated gaming optimizations, the Haier M80 TV stands out as an ideal choice for consumers seeking a reliable, feature-rich, and top-quality smart TV that elevates their home entertainment and brings a touch of magic to their everyday life.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Emergency services rushing to 'police incident' on busy motorway
Emergency services are making their way to the scene (Image: Newsquest) A slip road on the busy M80 motorway has been closed due to an ongoing police incident. The northbound on-slip at the Auchenkilns Interchange (Junction five) is currently shut, with emergency services in rushing to the scene. Drivers are being urged to approach with caution and follow any instructions or diversions in place. READ MORE: Major road in Glasgow to close for number of days READ MORE: Emergency crews rush to local canal after reports of 'person in the water' NEW ❗⌚13:48#M80 - Junction 5 Onslip The Northbound junction 5 on-slip is ⛔CLOSED⛔ due to a Police incident. TRISS are in attendance and emergency services are en-route Please #TakeCare on approach. @SETrunkRoads — Traffic Scotland (@trafficscotland) May 6, 2025 Traffic Scotland issued the following update: 'The M80 – Junction five on-slip northbound is closed due to a police incident. "TRISS are in attendance and emergency services are en route." The nature of the incident has not yet been confirmed. Motorists should expect delays in the area. Police Scotland has been approached for comment.
Forbes
31-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Next-Gen 5G Modems From MediaTek And Qualcomm Debut At MWC 2025
MediaTek's and Qualcomm's new 5G modems Each spring, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the place where the entire mobile ecosystem shows off the best of what it has to offer for the year. Following Apple's announcement of its C1 modem inside the iPhone 16e (which I covered in an earlier article), there was inevitably going to be a response from the two biggest providers of 5G modems, MediaTek and Qualcomm. Both companies have been shipping 5G modems across multiple generations for years. Both companies are also pushing the limits of 5G connectivity by using AI, incorporating satellite functionality and breaking the 10 Gbps barrier. While MediaTek and Qualcomm are pushing 5G connectivity forward with the new modems they launched at MWC, they are also prioritizing different aspects of 5G Advanced (3GPP Rel. 18) that could help the eventual transition to 6G. Let's dive into the details of these two new modem chips. (Disclosure: Like many other semiconductor makers, MediaTek and Qualcomm are both clients of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.) MediaTek's M90 modem was the first to be announced, just ahead of MWC 2025 in Barcelona. The M90 is MediaTek's 3GPP Rel. 17 modem, which the company says also conforms to the upcoming R18 5G-Advanced spec. MediaTek has given the M90 a peak throughput of 12 Gbps, which is a significant improvement over its M80 predecessor, which had a 7 Gbps downlink. MediaTek has also upped the ante by increasing carrier aggregation in sub-6-gigahertz bands from four carriers in the M80 to six carriers in the M90. The M90 also enhances uplink performance by 20% over the M80 by utilizing advanced transmit switching. With this device, MediaTek is also focused on the future with support for both 3GPP NTN and IoT-NR standards, which were introduced in 3GPP Rel. 17. This gives the modem satellite connectivity, which MediaTek previously enabled via a standalone NTN-IoT chip that had to sit alongside a 5G modem chip or operate entirely on its own. I believe that MediaTek's integration of NTN satellite connectivity will help to drive the industry forward; in time, it will be expected of both carriers and OEMs that these capabilities will be integrated at little to no additional cost. (For more context on satellite connectivity, see my 'State of 5G' roundup from last month, my recent article on the T-Mobile/SpaceX partnership and my colleague Will Townsend's recap of interesting telecom developments at MWC.) The M90 also features MediaTek's second-generation AI for modems, a.k.a. MediaTek Modem AI 2.0, which the company says recognizes usage patterns and network environments to optimize connectivity and maximize performance. According to MediaTek, Modem AI 2.0 can also detect device orientation and usage scenarios to maximize connectivity performance in different environments. MediaTek says that its Smart Antenna technology can also identify an operating environment and boost throughput by as much as 30% through optimizations. Mediatek's focus on power efficiency was also evident with the M90 modem as the company introduced its UltraSave 4.0 solution for 5G power savings. MediaTek claims that UltraSave 4.0 reduces average power usage by 18% compared to the M80. Additionally, MediaTek says it is implementing a 3GPP Rel. 17 feature called Paging Early Indication to reduce idle power by 15% over the M80. This means that the M90 is a significantly faster modem than the M80, yet also has considerably lower active and idle power usage. During MWC 2025, MediaTek announced that it had successfully validated performance for the M90 with Keysight using an emulator in a lab. While this isn't necessarily relevant to the consumer experience, it does reinforce that MediaTek's modems are indeed as quick as claimed. The company seems to be targeting mobile, customer premises equipment, IoT and automotive applications with the M90; I expect that it won't be long until we see a T900-series platform for FWA and CPE applications like we have with the M70 and M80. The T-series is a full RF-SoC platform that MediaTek has created for faster and easier integration into hotspot and FWA CPE solutions. MediaTek has done exceptionally well in the 5G FWA realm, taking advantage of the first 5G killer app with fixed wireless broadband. The company also has the M60 modem, which it announced in 2023, specifically designed for 5G RedCap solutions, predominantly for IoT applications due to its low cost and lower throughput. The M60 powers the company's T300 RF-SoC for RedCap, which is much more cost-effective than something like an M90 for IoT applications, but is still 3GPP Rel. 17-compatible, which is necessary to support RedCap. Many consumers won't notice anything different about the Qualcomm X85, but those who have been following Qualcomm for a while will notice the missing Snapdragon branding. That's because the introduction of Qualcomm's Dragonwing brand has led the company to reorganize its branding. Now, products like modems, CPU cores and GPU cores that bridge multiple markets and functions will carry only Qualcomm branding; the Snapdragon and Dragonwing brands will be used for more vertical-specific applications. (This is explained in more detail in Patrick Moorhead's high-level assessment of Qualcomm's announcements at MWC.) Branding aside, the Snapdragon X85 is the latest of the company's dozen-plus different 5G modems released since 2018. While Qualcomm's modem generations are sometimes hard to nail down, the company has released at least one new 5G modem each year during that time. Qualcomm says that the X85 is its eighth-generation 5G modem-to-antenna solution and its fourth generation of AI-powered 5G connectivity. Qualcomm's top-end modems have been capable of 10 Gbps per second peak speeds ever since the X65 in 2021, but with the X85, Qualcomm increases that to 12.5 Gbps to once again claim the fastest 5G modem crown. The X85 is designed to support 5G Advanced, 3GPP Rel.18 features and will once again primarily target Android smartphones, much like its predecessors. The AI tensor processor inside the X85 is 30% faster than the preceding generation at performing inference tasks, which now enhances performance, coverage, latency and power efficiency. Qualcomm also claims that the X85 is the first modem with 400-megahertz downlink carrier aggregation in the sub-6-gigahertz spectrum, as well as the first with uplink carrier aggregation (200 megahertz) with four layers. Like its competition, it also supports up to 6x carrier aggregation, which is how it can achieve the 400 megahertz of bandwidth. Qualcomm also supports switched uplink with Rel. 17 and supplemental uplink for China. The X85 also supports up to 3.7 Gbps of uplink throughput thanks to the 200-megahertz 4x Uplink CA. This means that Qualcomm's 5G modem continues to be the fastest in the land, with global band support for all bands ranging from 600 megahertz up to 41 gigahertz. Qualcomm says that this covers more than 10,000 different band configurations, which makes it one of the most capable modems on earth. Qualcomm has also integrated 5G NTN support into the X85, but the company had already integrated that functionality into its flagship modems since the X80 was announced last year. In addition to NTN support, there is also support for industrial IoT applications like 5G TSN (time-sensitive networking) and 5G Ethernet, which both seek to enable 5G for private industrial networks. These features should help Qualcomm and its partners leverage 5G in manufacturing and other industrial applications where Ethernet or wires can inhibit flexibility and production uptime. The company also touted another unique feature with support for the Future Railway Mobile Communication System, which is a new 5G standard specifically focused on supporting connectivity on European railways. (If you've ever experienced connectivity on trains, it's generally not very good, and moving quickly between cell sites can impact battery life.) This new system will replace the old GSM-R, which is an outdated 2G standard for railways; for comparison, GSM-R has a 9.6 Kbps bitrate, while FRMCS is capable of 100 Mbps. FRMCS also supports higher-speed trains up to 500 km/h, while GSM-R supports only up to 400 km/h. Qualcomm's target markets for the X85 modem are, unsurprisingly, smartphones, mobile broadband devices, FWA, industrial IoT and satellite communications. I would again expect that we will see the X85 first in some smartphones, quickly followed by 5G FWA, CPE, PCs and IoT applications. At MWC 2025, Qualcomm also announced the Dragonwing FWA Gen 4 Elite, which is powered by the Qualcomm X85 modem and a 40 TOPS NPU for 5G AI applications. Qualcomm also announced the X82 — a less expensive, featured-down modem — to accompany the X85 for more mainstream applications. Both modems are already sampling to customers, with commercially available devices expected in the second half of this year. While we are still quite a way away from a 6G standard, 5G Advanced (3GPP Rel. 18) is the first step in that direction. And although operators like China Mobile and T-Mobile are only beginning to talk about 5G Advanced networks, 5G Standalone networks are necessary to even start thinking about them. Leading global operators including Reliance Jio are already using 5G SA but will still need devices that use modems like the MediaTek M90 and the Qualcomm X85 to enable those capabilities. One other thing of note is that previous-generation modems also claimed to support 5G Advanced features, with that standard being frozen as of June 18, 2024. It will be interesting to see which of those devices get equipped with Rel. 18 features once 5G Advanced starts to be rolled out by operators.
