Tokyo, Japan—Asahi Kasei EMD Corp. (AKEMD) launched the AK4141, a single-chip, alignment-free digital decoder for European, Chinese and Japanese markets using NICAM/A2/EIA-J standards. The AK4141 is ...

STMicroelectronics has announced an MPEG layer 3 audio decoder chip that also includes an embedded ADPCM (adaptive differential pulse code modulation) codec to allow voice recording and playback.

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies, said it has developed a baseband processor for UMTS basestations that supports voice and data signals within a single channel.

Mind reading has become possible for the first time ever, thanks to a brain decoder developed by a team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. In an interview with the New Scientist, ...