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 completed its first
wafer level packaging (WLP) demonstrator and sampled product to a
multi-billion-dollar tier-1 mobile device OEM.
This initial WLP demonstrator leverages
Akoustis’ 5.2 GHz WiFi coexistence filter technology that is up to
260 times smaller than existing dielectric resonator (DR) filters
used in routers and similar non-mobile products. The footprint of
the new sample filter is 1.25 mm x 1.05 mm x 0.3 mm, in-line with
competing BAW micro filters that are being used in 4G and 5G mobile
devices. These devices include cellular handsets, laptops, tablets
and other devices.
The Company’s first WLP sample utilizes the
Company’s completed and locked 5.2 GHz WiFi filter, with future WLP
designs to focus on 5 GHz WiFi and 5G mobile frequencies in the
sub-6 GHz bands including n41, n77, n78 and n79. Once qualified in
the second half of calendar 2020, the WLP package technology will
enable the Company’s XBAW RF filter technology to achieve a
form-factor attractive for mobile devices.
Jeff Shealy, Founder and CEO of Akoustis,
stated, “Working with our packaging partner to develop a WLP
technology for our RF filter chips is a significant milestone for
Akoustis as we begin to achieve packaged form-factors for our XBAW™
filter solutions suitable for mobile devices. Once fully qualified,
we will be positioned to target 5G mobile handset OEMs, tablet and
laptop OEMs either directly to OEMs or through RF module
partnerships.”
Mr. Shealy continued, “We have expanded sampling
to one of the world’s largest OEMs, and we look forward to working
with partners and customers to develop qualifiable, commercial
wafer level packaging moving forward.”
The 5.2 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. The packages have been designed by Akoustis and
made using a high-volume manufacturing partner.
The New WLP Demonstrator features:
- High frequency 5.2GHz
operation
- Wide bandwidth covering greater
than 100 MHz
- Low insertion loss in filter
passband
- Single-ended input/output
ports
- Ultra-small form factor allow
integration in module
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 and five S-Band filters
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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risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those currently anticipated
include, without 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 the anticipated timing of such development; our ability to
protect our intellectual property rights that are valuable to our
business, including patent and other intellectual property rights;
our ability to successfully manufacture, market and sell products
based on our technologies; the ability to achieve qualification of
our products for commercial manufacturing in a timely manner and
the size and growth of the potential markets for any products so
qualified; the rate and degree of market acceptance of any of our
products; our ability to raise funding to support operations and
the continued development and qualification of our products and the
technologies underlying them; and our ability to service our
outstanding indebtedness. These and other risks and uncertainties
are described in more detail in the Risk Factors and Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations sections of the Company’s most recent Annual Report on
Form 10-K and in subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
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expectations.
- Akoustis' Wafer Level Package Solution
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
(858) 794-9500
bprag@delmarconsulting.com
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