As someone born in the 1980s, I lived through the peak of the MP3 era, just like many of my peers. We bought Bluetooth speakers, TWS earbuds, and every kind of wireless audio device that followed. But aside from Intel Inside’s unforgettable “da-da-da-da”, few of us ever stopped to think about the chips powering the devices in our hands. It was really the smartphone era that brought chip suppliers ...