Anker’s Soundcore is bringing its incredible call quality
After introducing the Thus processing chip in April and releasing it with the Liberty 5 Pro series earbuds, Soundcore is bringing it to more audio products.
By Dillip Chowdary • Sep 03, 2026 • Source: The Verge
What happened
Anker announced at the IFA trade show that its Soundcore brand is expanding the availability of its specialized Thus processing chip to more of its audio products. This hardware component was first introduced in April alongside the release of the Liberty 5 Pro series earbuds. The expansion means that the proprietary background noise elimination technology will soon be integrated into a wider selection of headphones and earbuds beyond the initial flagship release. (76 words)
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See our ethics statement.The Soundcore Space 2 Pro will be the first headphones to run on Anker’s Thus chip. Image: SoundcorePart OfLIVEIFA 2026: the biggest tech and gadget announcementssee all updates John Higgins is a senior reviewer covering TVs and audio.
Who is affected
He has over 20 years experience in AV, and has previously been on staff at Digital Trends and Reviewed.After introducing the Thus processing chip in April and releasing it with the Liberty 5 Pro series earbuds, Soundcore is bringing it to more audio products. The Thus chip is behind the best call quality I’ve ever heard from a pair of earbuds or headphones, virtually eliminating ambient sounds from the speaker’s environment.
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There are also eight microphones for the headphones’ adaptive active noise cancellation (ANC), which Soundcore claims is 1.5 times stronger than the ANC on the Space One Pro headphones across the 20Hz to 2,000Hz frequency range. See the full write-up from The Verge via the source link for quotes and complete context.
Developer Action Items
- ☐ Verify the claim on the official Anker Soundcore bringing incredible page (or The Verge), not from this recap alone.
- ☐ Name the surface that moved — API, policy, model, hardware, or commercial terms — before you Slack the thread.
- ☐ Assign one owner a day to read the primary material and decide: this-sprint, this-quarter, or noise.
- ☐ Do not change production on day-one coverage. Watch the vendor changelog and one independent write-up first.
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Dillip Chowdary
Writes Tech Bytes coverage of AI, engineering, and the tools that actually ship. Editor of Tech Pulse Daily.
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