Bose noise cancelling now available for cars without Bose stereos.

In 2012, NXP Semiconductor released the SAF775x chip that was the first multi-tuner RFCMOS (radio frequency complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) single chip embedded with AM, FM and DAB tuners. That story for non-techies is that it could do with one chip what had been previously been done with two, and it also allowed customers - in this case carmakers - "to program their own features, or to run those of third-party software vendors."

Bose noise cancellation is now one of the features that can be placed on the chip. This news means that cars that don't offer Bose systems can take advantage of the technology, although the automaker would still need to fit microphones that capture cabin noise and send the signal to the processor.

Source: Bose