- Two SoC Customer Shipments for 4x4 and 8x8 MU-MIMO WiFi
Reference Designs -- Shipped Two Filter Orders to Global
Distribution Partner -- All 5.2 GHz Milestones Achieved in March
Quarter -
Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or
the “Company”), a design and manufacturer of patented bulk acoustic
wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless
applications, announced today new shipments for its 5.2 GHz WiFi
XBAW filters to multiple customers.
Akoustis announced its first system-on-chip
(SoC) customer in November 2018. This customer, a
multi-billion-dollar Tier-1 WiFi SoC vendor, is developing 4x4 and
8x8 multi-user, multiple-in, multiple-out (MU-MIMO) architectures
for the 802.11ax WiFi radio standard and chose Akoustis’ patented
XBAW™ filters for inclusion in future reference designs. Today’s
announcement includes the complete initial product shipment to this
first SoC customer.
The Company announced a second SoC customer in
early January 2019, and successfully booked and shipped 5.2 GHz
pre-production XBAW filters to this customer in the March quarter.
This customer intends to use the filters for evaluation and
approval for 4x4 and 8x8 MU-MIMO reference designs.
In the December quarter, Akoustis announced it
had received its first purchase order for its 5.2 GHz filters from
a global distributor. Today’s announcement includes the first
commercial shipments to this global distributor in the March
quarter to support resale activity, as well as a second 5.2 GHz
filter order shipped to this customer within the past ten days.
Today’s announcement of XBAW filter shipments is
in addition to the shipments to Akoustis’ new global RF customer
announced last week, which purchased over 80,000 units of the 5.2
GHz WiFi filter. As part of that announcement, Akoustis and the
global RF company have executed a non-exclusive product development
and supply agreement for RF coexistence filters along with a
statement of work for new WiFi customer premise equipment (CPE)
filter solutions to support the customer’s expanding product
portfolio. Akoustis expects to make additional commercial volume
shipments later this calendar year to both this customer as well as
the global distributor.
Jeff Shealy, Founder and CEO of Akoustis said,
“We continue to expand commercialization of our first XBAW filter
product in WiFi with shipments of our 5.2 GHz filters. Importantly,
our WiFi filter product supply chain has demonstrated its ability
to support higher volume shipments.” Mr. Shealy continued,
“Furthermore, our R&D efforts are progressing with a 5.6 GHz
WiFi XBAW filter as we expect to transition to pre-production in
the coming months. We continue to see strong customer interest for
our tandem 5.2 GHz and 5.6 GHz WiFi coexistence filters.”
The Akoustis 5.2 GHz XBAW filter was chosen by
all four customers due to its high performance and significantly
smaller size relative to incumbent dielectric resonators. Akoustis’
WiFi filters are developed and manufactured in its Canandaigua, NY
fabrication facility using its patented XBAW process.
Pre-production units are expected to be used for evaluation and
approval for future access point and other WiFi infrastructure
designs.
Akoustis previously achieved first XBAW filter
product revenue in the September 2018 quarter. Today’s announcement
demonstrates further market traction and ongoing ramp of the
Company’s supply chain for XBAW filters over the last six
months.
Akoustis has introduced several new filters over
the past twelve months including its 5.2 GHz and 5.6 GHz WiFi
co-existence filters, a 3.8 GHz filter for military phased-array
radar applications, a 3.6 GHz filter for the CBRS infrastructure
market and Band 25 downlink and uplink filters for LTE
infrastructure. The Company is also developing several new filters
for the sub 7 GHz bands targeting 5G mobile device, network
infrastructure, WiFi CPE and military markets.
About Akoustis Technologies,
Inc.
Akoustis® (www.akoustis.com) is a high-tech BAW
RF filter solutions company that is pioneering next-generation
materials science and MEMS wafer manufacturing to address the
market requirements for improved RF filters - targeting higher
bandwidth, higher operating frequencies and higher output power
compared to incumbent polycrystalline BAW technology
deployed today. The Company utilizes its proprietary XBAW
manufacturing process to produce bulk acoustic wave RF filters
for mobile and other wireless markets, which facilitate
signal acquisition and accelerate band performance between the
antenna and digital back end. Superior performance is
driven by the significant advances of high-purity,
single-crystal and associated piezoelectric materials and the
resonator-filter process technology which drives electro-mechanical
coupling and translates to wide filter bandwidth.
Akoustis plans to service the fast growing
multi-billion-dollar RF filter market using its integrated
device manufacturer (IDM) business model. The Company owns and
operates a 120,000 sq. ft. ISO-9001:2015
certified commercial wafer-manufacturing facility located in
Canandaigua, NY, which includes a class 100 / class 1000 cleanroom
facility - tooled for 150-mm diameter wafers - for the
design, development, fabrication and packaging of RF filters, MEMS
and other semiconductor devices. Akoustis Technologies,
Inc. is headquartered in the Piedmont technology
corridor near Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Akoustis Technologies
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