Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or
the “Company”), an integrated device manufacturer (IDM) of patented
bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other
wireless applications, announced today it has shipped 60,000
pre-production 5.6 GHz BAW filters to a leading global supplier of
RF solutions, targeting tri-band WiFi customer premise equipment
(CPE).
In March of this year, Akoustis and this global
RF company executed a non-exclusive product development and supply
agreement for RF coexistence filters along with a statement of work
for new WiFi CPE filter solutions to support the customer’s
expanding product portfolio. This includes the Akoustis’ tandem 5.2
GHz and 5.6 GHz coexistence XBAW filters, which combine to make the
world’s first microfilter solution for high band WiFi CPE.
Akoustis expects to make additional volume
commercial shipments to this customer in calendar 2020 and beyond
as part of the agreement.
An executive from the Company’s global RF
customer previously stated, “Akoustis’ XBAW technology is
outstanding, even as compared with other BAW technology in the
industry. We believe this leading filter technology can deliver in
the high-frequency bands for WiFi networking and 5G mobile and will
help us deliver significant growth over the next several
years.”
This customer chose the Akoustis 5 GHz WiFi
coexistence filter solution given the significant size advantage
over existing dielectric resonator filters with up to 23 times
smaller footprint. The filters provide low insertion loss, meet the
demanding coexistence rejection specifications and can be surface
mounted.
Jeff Shealy, Founder and CEO of Akoustis,
stated, “Our team continues to execute, hitting another important
milestone and highlighting our ability to scale XBAW production,
including this new and challenging wideband 5.6 GHz coexistence
filter.”
Mr. Shealy continued, “With this shipment, and
the shipment of 80,000 5.2 GHz WiFi tandem filters earlier this
year, our RF solutions customer is now well positioned to begin
capturing share in multiple markets and help deliver new revenue
streams in calendar 2020 and beyond.”
The 5.6 GHz XBAW WiFi filter features:
• Low insertion loss passband filter • Wide bandwidth covering
entire 345 MHz UNII 2C+3 passband • High rejection enables
co-existence with adjacent WiFi UNII bands • Single ended Tx/Rx
ports • High power rating, maximum +30dBm • Ultra small form factor
2.5mm x 2.0mm x 0.9mm • Performance over -40C to +85C • RoHS
compliant, Pb-free package
The 5.6 GHz filters are designed and
manufactured using the Company’s patented XBAW process and
manufactured in the Company’s Si-MEMS Wafer Fab located in
Canandaigua, NY.
Akoustis has introduced several new filters over
the past twelve months including a 5.6 GHz WiFi filter, a 5.2 GHz
WiFi filter, a 4.9 GHz band n79 filter for small cell
network infrastructure, a 3.8 GHz filter for defense 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 defense 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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limitation, risks relating to the results of our research and
development activities, including uncertainties relating to
semiconductor process manufacturing; the development of our
XBAWTM technology and products presently under development and
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technologies underlying them; and our ability to service our
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Contact:
COMPANY:
Tom Sepenzis
Akoustis Technologies
VP of Corporate Development & IR
(980) 689-4961
tsepenzis@akoustis.com
The Del Mar Consulting Group, Inc.
Robert B. Prag, President
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