Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or
the “Company”), a designer and manufacturer of patented bulk
acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other
wireless applications, announced today it has received a purchase
order from a multi-billion dollar tier-1 wireless
telecommunications company to develop a co-existence BAW RF filter
for 5G spectrum addressing mobile handsets and other wireless
devices.
This is the first purchase order the Company has
received for 5G mobile RF BAW filters and the 5G Mobile market
represents the largest future opportunity for Akoustis in both unit
sales and revenue. According to a February 2019 published report
from Gartner, more than 1.5 billion mobile smartphones were sold in
2018.
Under the terms of the order, Akoustis will use
its patented and proprietary XBAW™ technology to develop a
high-band BAW filter for mobile handsets to address the
co-existence challenges associated with emerging 5G frequency
bands. Akoustis was chosen by this new tier-1 customer given its
unique ability to provide BAW filter solutions up to 7 GHz that can
offer the high performance necessary to deal with the co-existence
of closely-spaced frequency bands.
Akoustis expects to deliver first filter samples
to the customer by the end of the current quarter.
Jeff Shealy, Founder and CEO of Akoustis,
stated, “The 5G handset market represents the most meaningful
revenue opportunity for Akoustis. This key milestone is a testament
to the enormous progress we have made in commercializing our
patented high frequency XBAW RF filter technology over the past
year.”
Mr. Shealy continued, “As the sub-6 GHz 5G new
radio (NR) mid-band resides between 3.3 GHz to 5 GHz, future filter
solutions to resolve co-existence issues in 5G mobile handsets are
right in our sweet spot. We have already developed commercial
filter products at 3.8 GHz, 5.2 GHz and 5.6 GHz, proving that we
can produce BAW RF filters at the higher frequencies associated
with 5G. As a result, we are in discussions with multiple large
mobile handset companies seeking high frequency co-existence filter
technology.”
In July 2018, Akoustis announced that
it completed the qualification of its first generation XBAW
wafer technology and the underlying high purity piezoelectric
materials process at its Canandaigua, NY fabrication facility.
Akoustis has recently developed 5.2 GHz and 5.6 GHz WiFi
co-existence filters, 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-6 GHz bands targeting 5G mobile device, network
infrastructure, WiFi CPE and defense markets.
For customers interested in XBAW filters for 5G
mobile devices or other applications, please contact Akoustis at:
sales@akoustis.com.
Akoustis will host an investor call to provide a
business update and outlook on May 13, 2019 at 8:00
a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Management will host a
question and answer session at the end of the call.
To listen to the call by telephone, please dial
(877) 407-9208 (domestic) or (201) 493-6784 (international). The
conference call will be webcast live on the Company’s website and
will be available for playback at the following
URL: https://ir.akoustis.com/ir-calendar.
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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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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Contact:
COMPANY:
Tom Sepenzis
Akoustis Technologies
VP of Corporate Development & IR
(980) 689-4961
tsepenzis@akoustis.com
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Robert B. Prag, President
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