HSINCHU, Taiwan – January 06, 2025 – This year, at CES 2025, Realtek Semiconductor Corporation (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2379.TW), one of the world’s leading network and multimedia IC providers, will demonstrate a full range of innovative technologies, including consumer electronics for smart TV and intelligent display, edge computing, PC audio-video fusion technology, BT/ IoT/ Wi-Fi communications solutions, and automotive total solutions.
PC Audio-Video Fusion Technology
Realtek's TSE (Target Speaker Enhancement) Dynamic Enrollment technology utilizes advanced audio and video integration to automatically recognize the target speaker's face ID while simultaneously gathering their voice characteristics in the background. Once sufficient data are collected, the TSE feature activates automatically, focusing solely on the target speaker's voice and filtering out other voices to deliver clear audio. Combined with AI noise reduction technology, TSE effectively suppresses ambient noise, ensuring the target speaker’s voice remains clear even in open or noisy environments.
Edge AI Human Sensing USB Camera Solution
Realtek has achieved another breakthrough in edge computing by developing a second-generation, three-in-one single chip with an integrated USB interface, a neural processor, and a high-performance image processing engine. This solution not only meets the high-end image quality requirements for laptop-embedded cameras but also significantly enhances human-computer interaction convenience through its human-centric intelligent human sensing features while effectively conserving power and extending battery life. At CES 2025, Realtek will unveil its advanced edge computing human sensing technology that precisely captures user characteristics to enable innovative audio-visual collaboration features, delivering the user’s forward-looking technological experiences and intelligent applications, once more showcasing the unlimited possibilities of technological innovation.
Bluetooth Hearing Aid
Realtek’s Bluetooth hearing aid solutions are renowned for their ultra-low processing delay, which means that the processed and amplified sound from the hearing aid is almost perfectly in sync with the natural sound that leaks into the ear canal. Realtek Bluetooth hearing aids support advanced AI noise reduction technology, which is a breakthrough innovation in hearing aid applications. By utilizing millions of environmental sounds to train its AI models, this technology can effectively identify and differentiate various noises and scenes in the environment, optimizing the speech-to-noise ratio and improving speech recognition capabilities in noisy environments.
At CES 2025, Realtek will showcase its Bluetooth hearing aids with ultra-low processing delay and AI noise reduction technology. These technologies highlight Realtek’s cutting-edge innovations in hearing technology, further improving the quality of life for hearing aid users.
BT and Wi-Fi Twin Chip Watch Solution
At this year’s event, Realtek will showcase its Bluetooth wearable chip that integrates a CPU, audio codec, image engine, display driver, rich peripherals, and BT/BLE 5.4, providing a single-chip Bluetooth watch solution.
Realtek integrates Bluetooth and Wi-Fi products and fully leverages its advantages to offer a competitive one-stop solution portfolio.
IoT/ Wi-Fi Audio Solution, Wi-Fi Low Power Solution
At this year’s CES show, Realtek will showcase its cutting-edge IoT technology: Wi-Fi Audio Solution. Using a dongle as the transmitter and multiple speakers as receivers, Realtek will demonstrate this efficient wireless audio transmission over a 5GHz band. This solution not only supports multi-channel and high-resolution formats but also achieves low latency and first-rate audio synchronization, making it ideal for modern home and entertainment applications with strong interference resistance. Additionally, Realtek will present its low-power IP camera solution, featuring an IC designed for optimal power efficiency, providing a reliable, energy-saving option for smart home devices. Realtek's innovative technologies cater to markets demanding high-quality wireless audio and low-power camera equipment, further expanding possibilities for IoT applications.
High-Performance, Low-Power AI Smart Glasses Chipset Solutions
Pushing the limits of smart wearable performance, Realtek introduces AI smart glasses solutions built with advanced process technology and innovative design architecture. These solutions enable users to receive cloud-based multimodal AI assistance for visual and voice interactions anytime, anywhere, while also enjoying high-quality Bluetooth audio, boosting productivity, and enhancing daily convenience. Realtek’s solutions integrate a high-performance CPU with a dual-core DSP, an AI NN Engine, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.4 and LE Audio, an image ISP, and a high-performance DSP supporting multi-microphone noise reduction and built-in hardware VAD (Voice Activity Detection), equipping smart glasses with outstanding computing capabilities and industry-leading low power consumption. With millisecond-level response times, these solutions support seamless processing of KWS (keyword spotting) voice command, Realtek's EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization) for steady visuals, and clear 2K video quality that surpasses FHD. Additionally, they provide AI-powered HD image recognition and real-time translation, allowing users to enjoy a seamless, AI-driven digital experience anytime, anywhere.
Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi Location Technology, Multi-Link Operation Technology
With a complete Wi-Fi product lineup, Realtek provides solutions that meet diverse customer needs. Realtek’s latest Wi-Fi 7 technology enhances wireless signal quality and expands network coverage. Additionally, Wi-Fi 7 integrates Wi-Fi location technology aimed at delivering an improved user experience. Through Wi-Fi location technology, users can accurately measure point-to-point distances with an error margin within 1 meter (160 MHz bandwidth). Customers can leverage this feature to develop business use cases, such as auto-connecting to a monitor for projection when approaching a server that supports Wi-Fi location technology and disconnecting when moving away—enhancing both user experience and efficiency. Through multi-link operation technology, a user can connect to 2GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz at the same time to confirm which frequency band is the best and most stable path, providing users with a better networking experience. At CES, Realtek will demonstrate Wi-Fi location technology applications and multi-link operation technology.
Wi-Fi 7 Router Solution
Realtek’s Wi-Fi 7 AP/Router solutions include the BE7200 router solution, and the BE3600 Router/Extender solution. They support the latest Wi-Fi 802.11be standard and provide end users with new AI features such as AI tunneling, dynamic bandwidth adjustment for next-generation high-bandwidth and low-latency performance. Realtek's Wi-Fi 7 mainstream AP router solutions utilize a unified platform that supports a wide range of performance levels, from BE3600 to BE7200. This allows customers to efficiently develop various models of AP routers with ease. This advanced 4T5R RF architecture on a BE7200 router solution can provide higher Wi-Fi performance with wider coverage than other competing products for Enterprise/SMB/Home, perfect for large houses as well as medium and small-sized organizations. The BE3600 extender solution is the world's first AI MESH suite with a patented AI Location feature. It has a visual interface that can interact with the end user for speedy setup and deployment.
Realtek’s demonstration this year will showcase home AI Wi-Fi deployment scenarios for AI routers and extenders.
xPON with Wi-Fi 7 and Flexible Ethernet Solution
As fiber optic networks become more widespread, telecom operators are not only upgrading bandwidth but also continuously enhancing Wi-Fi standards to provide end users with the best experience. Realtek’s xPON solution offers the advantage of compatibility with Realtek’s own Wi-Fi chip, allowing for synchronization with the latest Wi-Fi 7 technology. This provides customers with various Wi-Fi 7 configurations (BE3600, BE6500, and BE7200). Additionally, by integrating Realtek’s robust Switch and PHY solutions, the Ethernet configuration of xPON becomes more diverse (2.5GE/5GE/10GE). Realtek’s new xPON solution further improves power management to meet future international power standards (CoC 9.0 or later).
Last Mile Solution for Automotive Ethernet
Over the last 10 years, due to the rapid growth of ADAS and smart cockpits, in-vehicle Ethernet connectivity has dramatically improved to above 100Mbps. Currently, Automotive Ethernet can reach 10Gbps and is the high-speed communication backbone for a central computing unit, zonal ECU, LiDAR, and Radar. The next step for Automotive Ethernet will focus on 10Mbps low-speed connection that involves sensing and controlling at the end node. Following this trend, Realtek has launched a 10BASE-T1S integrated PHY with a Multidrop feature that significantly reduces the number of transceivers in the EE architecture as well as enhancing software integration due to a complete Ethernet protocol.
Realtek’s 10BASE-T1S is the best solution for automakers wishing to expand their automotive Ethernet architecture from the backbone all the way to the last mile.
Smart TV and Intelligent Display Technology
Smart TVs continue to enhance new audio and video technologies to improve user experience. Realtek offers complete smart TV and intelligent display IC solutions, catering to customers' various specifications. By combining AI technology with Realtek self-developed AI algorithms, smart TVs are now elevated to AI smart TVs. The intelligent display is designed with the end-user in mind, combining innovation, productivity, and entertainment applications into a smart display, positioning the smart display as the room control center.
“Realtek's PC, communications, consumer electronics, and automotive solutions exhibited at CES 2025 comprise innovative and exclusive specifications, high performance, and high reliability”, said Yee-Wei Huang, Realtek's Vice President and Spokesman. “Our constantly evolving solutions provide all-round high performance at a competitive price point”.
About Realtek
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation is a world-leading IC provider that designs and develops a wide range of IC products for connected media, communications network, computer peripheral, multimedia, and Smart Interconnect applications. Products include 10/100/1000M/2.5G/5G/10G Ethernet Controllers/PHYs, 10/100/1000M/2.5G/10G/25G/100G Ethernet Switch Controllers/Media Converter Controllers/Gateway Controllers, Wireless LAN Controllers & AP/Router SoCs, xDSL, VoIP Solutions, Bluetooth, xPON, IoT Solutions, Automotive Ethernet Solutions, High Fidelity Audio Solutions for Consumer and PC Applications, Card Reader Controllers, USB 3.2/USB4 Hub Controllers, Type-C PD/Redriver Controllers, PC Embedded Controllers, Fingerprint Recognition with Hardware Encryption Controllers, Web/IP Camera Controllers, LCD Monitor Controllers, Display Hub/Retimers/Translators, Smart TV SoCs, and Digital Home Center Controllers. With advanced design expertise in RF, analog, and mixed signal circuits, and with superb system knowledge, Realtek offers full-featured, high-performance, low-power, and competitive total solutions. More information on Realtek can be found on the website: www.realtek.com.
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