SI Newsletter - 2026-05-18

Office-audio OEMs were quiet on first-party newsrooms; the week's signal came from the silicon and standards layer (Ceva Bluetooth HDT design win, Bluetooth SIG extending the Auracast deployment story into home AV) and from Asia supply-chain trade media — Shokz Day 2026 highlighting business-calling and AI noise reduction, Knowles publishing a new office-headset driver, and WuQi (物奇) silicon landing in another AI-camera-glasses SKU.. Lead is Shokz Day 2026 because it ties together both SI standing themes — office-headset OEM, business-calling positioning, and explicit AI call-noise-reduction messaging — in one place. Backed by Ceva's HDT design win (where next-gen wireless audio endpoints will be built from) and the supplier read on Knowles' new hybrid driver. Auracast home-theater piece is the standards follow-on after last week's ADA explainer.