Akustica launches single-chip microphone

Feb. 28, 2006 – Akustica, a builder of electronic products using MEMS technology, announced the availability of single-chip microphones.

The Akustica microphone chips are small, thin, light devices designed to replace the electret condenser microphone, a fifty-year-old technology that has been used in billions of portable electronic devices.

As a silicon microphone, Akustica says its microphone chips are not prone to the same degree of noise from any of these devices. The company says they also offer benefits to manufacturers. Because of their small size and surface-mountable design, they well suited to space-constrained consumer electronics devices that are manufactured in high volumes.

In addition, Akustica said that since it uses standard CMOS processes its microphone chips can be manufactured in quantity by existing CMOS foundries rather than by dedicated MEMS foundries.

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