SPARK Microsystems Named CES 2026 Innovation Award Honoree for Surpassing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Wireless Performance

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SPARK's SR1120 LE-UWB™ wireless transceiver, selected as an Honoree for the CES® 2026 Innovation AwardsSPARK's SR1120 LE-UWB™ wireless transceiver, selected as an Honoree for the CES® 2026 Innovation Awards Business Wire

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SPARK’s SR1120 LE-UWB™ transceiver recognized for outstanding design and engineering among embedded technologies enabling consumer technology products

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MONTREAL — SPARK Microsystems, a Canadian fabless semiconductor company specializing in next-generation short-range wireless communications, today announced that its SR1120 LE-UWB™ wireless transceiver has been selected as an Honoree for the CES® 2026 Innovation Awards in the Embedded Technologies category.

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Consumer electronics from AI glasses and AR to gaming and audio devices will take a major leap forward in connectivity performance with SPARK’s SR1120.

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SPARK’s award-winning innovation will be spotlighted at CES 2026, the world’s most powerful technology event. Attendees can join SPARK at CES 2026 (Palazzo Las Vegas, January 6-9) to experience these exciting innovations first-hand.

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The CES Innovation Awards® program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, the program recognizes honorees in a multitude of consumer technology product categories and distinguishes the highest rated in each. A panel of industry expert judges and global media review nominations based on criteria including innovation, engineering, functionality, aesthetics and design. The CES Innovation Awards® 2026 program received a record number of submissions – over 3,600.

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SPARK LE-UWB™ technology, embodied in the SR1120 transceiver, provides high data rate and very low latency wireless links at an ultra-low power profile, making it ideally suited for the new era of AI-ready mobile connected devices. Consumer electronics from AI glasses and AR to gaming and audio devices will take a major leap forward in connectivity performance with SPARK’s SR1120, with benefits extending to wirelessly connected healthcare and industrial devices, including robotics and ranging applications.

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SPARK’s SR1120 LE-UWB™ transceiver delivers 40X better data throughput performance than Bluetooth at approximately 25X lower power consumption and 60X lower latency. Compared to Wi-Fi, SPARK’s SR1120 delivers high data rates at approximately 5X lower latency with up to 100X lower power consumption. Compared to conventional UWB offerings limited to ranging and positioning applications, the SR1120 delivers competing ranging capability at approximately 100X lower power consumption in a uniquely cost-effective architecture.

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“Consumer electronics have suffered under the limitations of legacy wireless platforms for too long, sacrificing performance, latency and battery life because there was no other viable option – until today,” said Fares Mubarak, CEO, SPARK Microsystems. “SPARK’s SR1120 LE-UWB transceiver enables product designers to achieve breakthrough connectivity performance optimized for the modern demands of AI and AR.”

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To learn more about SPARK’s SR1120 LE-UWB™ transceiver, follow this link.

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About SPARK Microsystems

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SPARK Microsystems is building next-generation short-range wireless communication devices for consumer, industrial and medical applications. Leveraging patented LE-UWB™ technology, SPARK delivers ultra-low-power, high-speed wireless connectivity with unmatched interference robustness and exceptionally low latency. LE-UWB™ technology is ideally suited for wearables, peripherals, tags, sensors, and other IoT-connected devices that require reliable, high-performance data communication, as well as ranging and positioning capabilities. SPARK makes it possible to minimize and ultimately eliminate wires and batteries from a wide range of applications underserved by existing wireless technologies. For more information, please visit sparkmicro.com.

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SPARK MICROSYSTEMS and LE‑UWB are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARK Microsystems in Canada and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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