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Filter solutions embedded in multiplexers for 5G mobile phones and other mobile devices
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Multiplexers support reference designs for major mobile chipsets, expected to be introduced in the first half of CY2023
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The XBAW RF filter solution ships with the company’s new Wafer Level Package (WLP) manufactured in its New York fab.
CHARLOTTE, NC, Jan. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or the “Company”) announces a patented bulk acoustic wave (BAW) integrated device Manufacturer (IDM). ) develops high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications.The filters are manufactured using Akoustis XBAW® It will be part of a leading chipset OEM reference design and will be incorporated into the customer’s new multiplexer product, which is expected to ship in the first half of 2023.
This filter solution utilizes one of Akoustis’ new wafer-level packages (WLPs) and is developed and manufactured in its Canandaigua, NY fab. New XBAW®The base design is used to address difficult coexistence issues between 5G mid-band and Wi-Fi 6E 5-7 GHz bands. The customer is looking at additional applications for filters using XBAW.® After the successful completion of this first solution, the process will be carried out on future modules for 5G smartphones and other mobile devices.
Akoustis Founder and CEO Jeff Shealy said: Shealy continues: We plan to support this first of his 5G mobile customers through a large number of ramps planned from this quarter. ”
Akoustis has begun shipping its first prototype chips to customer purchase orders for development, sampling and qualification during the quarter ending December 31, 2022. This new order will be used to support bulk deliveries to multiple mobiles for Tier-1 RF component customers. Device makers leveraging leading chipset OEM reference designs.
The new filter solution is the first product to ship with the in-house developed and manufactured WLP. Global Supply Responding to challenges in his chain, Akoustis has spent the past year developing proprietary chip-scale packaging (CSP) and his WLP technology at its New York facility, targeting the 5G mobile device market. We are rapidly expanding our manufacturing capacity to XBAWMore® process. The new CSP and WLP technologies are significantly smaller than Akoustis’ current generation packages and offer superior back-end manufacturing costs.
Acoustis continues to experience strong demand and growing sales funnels for its Wi-Fi, 5G mobile and 5G infrastructure products, including CBRS XBAW.® Filters, and their new XBAW® and RFMi resonator and oscillator products. In the December quarter, the company shipped multiple samples of its new 5G XBAW.® Wafer with new advanced Wafer Level Packaging (WLP) technology. Akoustis continues to add successful new Wi-Fi designs, many of which are set to enter production in 2023.
Acoustis is actively mass producing Wi-Fi 6 tandem filter solutions and has shipped multiple 5G small cell XBAWs.® Provided filter solutions, delivered initial designs of new 5G mobile filter solutions to multiple customers, and entered the market with the new Wi-Fi 6E coexistence XBAW.® Filter your solutions. To date, Akoustis has won over 20 of his customer designs with his patented XBAW.® Filter your solutions.
In light of the rapidly expanding sales funnel activity and the continued interaction with customers regarding the expected increase in 5G mobile, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E in calendar year 2023, The company has completed an annual capacity increase at its New York plant. About 500 million filters per year.
About Akotis Technologies
acoustis® (http://www.akoustis.com/) is a high-tech BAW RF filter solutions company, a pioneer in next-generation material science and MEMS wafer semiconductor manufacturing, offering higher bandwidth, higher operating frequency and higher power output compared to traditional polycrystalline BAW. Targeting power to meet market demand for improved RF filters. technology.We obtained our own patent XBAWMore® manufacturing process Manufactures bulk acoustic wave RF filters for mobile and other wireless markets. This facilitates signal acquisition and accelerates bandwidth performance between the antenna and the digital backend. Superior performance is a major advance in polycrystalline, monocrystalline, and other high-purity piezoelectric materials, and a resonator filter process that enables optimal trade-offs between critical power, frequency, and bandwidth performance specifications Driven by technology.
Acoustis plans to use its integrated device manufacturer (IDM) business model to serve the rapidly growing multi-billion dollar RF filter market. The company owns and operates an ISO-9001:2015 registered 120,000 square foot commercial wafer fabrication facility located in Canandaigua, New York. The facility has a Class 100 / Class 1000 clean room facility designed for 6 inch diameter wafers. , RF filters, MEMS and other semiconductor device development, manufacturing and packaging. Acoustis Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in the Piedmont Technology Corridor near Charlotte, North Carolina.
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