Akoustis receives first design win in 5G mobile from Tier-1 RF component company

Akoustis Technologies announced that it has received its first design win in 5G mobile from a leading multi-billion-dollar Tier-1 RF component company customer. The XBAW filter is designed into a new multiplexer product that is expected to ship in the first half of calendar 2023 as part of a major chipset OEM reference design. The filter solution leverages one of Akoustis’ new wafer-level-packages, or WLP, developed and manufactured its Canandaigua, New York fab. The new XBAW design is being used to address difficult coexistence issues between 5G mid bands and WiFi 6E 5 to 7 GHz bands. The customer is considering additional applications for XBAW in future modules for 5G smartphones, tablets, wearables, and other mobile devices after the successful completion of this first solution. Akoustis began shipping pre-production chips against customer purchase orders for development, sampling and qualification during the quarter ending December 31. Given the rapidly growing sales funnel activity, as well as ongoing interaction with customers regarding expected ramps in 5G mobile, Wi-Fi 6, and Wi-Fi 6E in calendar 2023, the Company is completing the annual production capacity increase at its New York fab to approximately 0.5 billion filters per year.