Huawei SOUND X BOM: The domestic Bluetooth speaker industry ecosystem is becoming more robust

Wireless Bluetooth speakers have become a very popular segment in the smart home field. Different from traditional speaker products, Bluetooth speakers have an advantage in size, are easy to move, and are more in line with the aesthetics and home design concepts of young people today.

With the addition of AI voice assistants, many terminal manufacturers have entered the market to launch products and build their own smart home ecosystem. Among them, Huawei launched the high-end Bluetooth speaker - SOUND X. Its biggest feature is that it is co-created with Devialet, the world's top 3 professional speaker brand. In addition to being equipped with Devialet's 60W dual subwoofers, it also integrates Devialet's two black technologies: Devialet's patented signal processing technology SAM and Devialet's Push-Push symmetrical bass structure core technology.

Configuration

SoC: MediaTek MT8518AAAV

Storage: 512MB+8GB ROM

Features: Devialet 60W dual subwoofer | MediaTek AI Voice MT8518AAAV

BOM

Huawei SOUND X uses MediaTek's AI voice interaction system chip MT8518, which was released at last year's CES International Consumer Electronics Show. MT8518 supports low-power voice wake-up function, which can extend the standby time of intelligent voice assistant by 10 times. It also supports low-power far-field commands, local voiceprint recognition (Local Speaker ID) and local voice commands (Local Command) and other functions. For music streaming, MT8518's low-power playback technology can provide twice as long playback time as the previous generation solution.

In terms of audio ADC, SOUND X uses products from Suzhou Sunshine Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Sunshine Semiconductor was founded in 2007 and specializes in the design of high-performance, low-power, low-cost audio digital-analog mixed-signal integrated circuit chips. It focuses on the research and development of efficient audio digital-analog mixed-signal chip ADC, DAC and CODEC products.

In terms of audio amplification, SOUND X uses products from Jinghao Technology Co., Ltd. Jinghao Technology was founded in Taiwan in 1998. When the company was first established, it provided customers with various types of storage products and technologies. In recent years, in order to meet more customer needs, its product line has expanded to non-storage fields such as mixed signal machine system ICs. Currently, the products provided include a variety of power management, audio converters, Class D audio amplifiers, and wireless system ICs.

In terms of touch control, SOUND X uses products from Shenzhen Silicon Ocean Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Silicon Ocean Semiconductor was founded in 2002 and focuses on semiconductor integrated circuit design in the fields of power and interface (I/O). Its products are mainly used in computers and computer peripherals, portable products, mobile communications, and vehicle-mounted equipment.

In terms of NFC, SOUND X uses products from Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group Co., Ltd. Fudan Microelectronics was founded in 1998 by the "National Key Laboratory of ASICs and Systems" of Fudan University, Shanghai Commercial Investment Company and a group of IC design entrepreneurs. Fudan Microelectronics Group has now formed four mature product lines and system solutions for security and identification, smart meters, non-volatile memory, and smart appliances, and its products are marketed in more than 30 countries and regions. Security and identification products are widely used in finance, social security, urban public transportation, electronic certificates, mobile payments, anti-counterfeiting and traceability, and occupy a major market share.

After nearly 20 years of development, the Bluetooth speaker industry is still in its early stages of growth. During this period, the market growth rate was very high, demand grew rapidly, technology gradually took shape, barriers to entry for companies increased, and product varieties and the number of competitors increased. However, the participants in China's Bluetooth speaker industry chain continued to increase, and the industry ecosystem gradually became stronger.