WiSA to Set Standard for Wireless Audio
By Julie Jacobson
Silicon Image is major backer of new WiSA (Wireless Speaker and Audio) spec, based on wireless surround technology from Summit Semiconductor; Polk, Klipsch, Pioneer, Sharp on board.

A new organization called WiSA (Wireless Speaker and Audio) hopes to propagate a standard for wireless 7.1 surround sound. It is being driven by HDMI developer Silicon Image along with Summit Wireless, developer of the wireless audio technology on which the WiSA “standard” is based.

Wireless “standards” abound for home automation, PC peripherals, video and more … so why not wireless audio?



“I think it’s an industry first,” says Jim Venable, senior director of standards for Silicon Image and president of the WiSA Association, in an interview with CE Pro. “I think it will be a big boost in the growth of quality wireless audio.”

That would be nice, considering the 100 million homes or so that are not prewired for surround.

Silicon Image, which recently acquired wireless HD video developer SiBeam, is managing WiSA under the newly formed WiSA, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, Inc.

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