Machines Like Us

A Silicon Valley start-up company that has modeled the function of the human ear plans on Monday to introduce an integrated circuit intended to improve the sound quality of cellphones.

The company, Audience, will demonstrate the circuit on Monday on the first day of the Mobile World Congress, a cellular industry trade show in Barcelona, Spain. The circuit, the company’s first product, is a chip that is only slightly larger than a grain of sand. The company said the device would offer higher quality noise suppression than the software that performs this function in today’s cellphones.

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