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How MEMS speaker technology uses silicon chips to create ‘solid-state speakers’ and headphones
Key fact
Creative Technology – formerly Creative Labs – knows a thing or two about digital audio. Its SoundBlaster range of upgrade cards brought high-quality digital audio to PCs back in 1989, and dominated PC audio for almost 20 years. All Macs and PCs now have multi-channel sound built in, but the SoundBlaster name lives on with audio products such as the MEMS-based Aurvana earbuds.
Technology in the computer industry tends to change so quickly that it’s That’s not the case in other industries, though – it took almost a century for electric cars to provide an alternative to
