Akoustis Technologies, an integrated device manufacturer (IDM) of patented bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications, announced that it has started sampling two new Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 filter solutions, covering the U-NII 1-3 and U-NII 5-8 bands of high-frequency, high-speed Wi-Fi. The filters are expected to ramp into production in the first half of calendar 2023.
The newly developed filter solutions are high-performance, ultra-wideband XBAW® RF filters are being produced in Akoustis’ New York manufacturing facility. The filters are designed to meet the stringent rejection requirements enabling coexistence with the U-NII 1-3 and U-NII 5-8 frequency bands. They will be offered as standard catalog products, targeting Wi-Fi 6E and emerging Wi-Fi 7 enterprise, carrier, and consumer Access Points (AP), available to all potential customers. The primary advantages over the Company’s prior generation U-NII 1-3 and U-NII 5-8 filter solutions include significantly smaller form factor and superior out-of-band rejection performance.
Jeff Shealy, founder and CEO of Akoustis, stated, “Akoustis continues to push the limits of BAW filtering in high-frequency Wi-Fi applications.” Mr. Shealy continued, “These new filter solutions offer what we believe is the best out-of-band rejection capability using our BAW technology yet, at a significantly reduced size given our new chip-scale packages that we are now manufacturing in our New York semiconductor chip fabrication facility.”
Key Features of the A10655 BAW Filter:
- Small form factor 1.6mm x 1.8mm x 0.55mm
- Single-ended Tx/Rx ports.
- Ultra-wide passband covering 665MHz
- High rejection enables coexistence with adjacent WiFi UNII bands
- High power rating
- Low insertion loss bandpass filter
- Performance over -40 C to +85C
- RoHS compliant, Pb-free package
Key Features of the A10665 BAW Filter:
- Small form factor 1.6mm x 1.8mm x 0.55mm
- Single-ended Tx/Rx ports.
- Ultra-wide passband covering 1180MHz
- High rejection enables coexistence with adjacent WiFi UNII bands
- High power rating
- Low insertion loss bandpass filter
- Performance over -40 C to +85C
- RoHS compliant, Pb-free package
Akoustis is currently ramping commercial production and is investing to achieve annual production capacity of approximately 500 million units. Akoustis is actively delivering volume production of its Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E tandem filter solutions, shipping multiple 5G small cell XBAW® filter solutions and delivering initial designs of its new 5G mobile filter solutions to multiple customers.
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