June 1, 2006 – Akustica Inc. and X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG announced a strategic supplier partnership to focus on wafer processing of Akustica’s AKU2000 Microphone Chip.

The first Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) MEMS microphone, Akustica’s AKU2000 Microphone Chip is also the first single-chip silicon microphone. The companies say that the combination of Akustica’s expertise in patented CMOS MEMS semiconductor design and X-FAB’s device manufacturing technologies is expected to deliver improvements in manufacturing cost and time-to-market, as well as new classes of CMOS MEMS chips.

“X-FAB is a leading pure-play analog and mixed-signal semiconductor foundry,” said Jim Rock, co-founder and CEO of Akustica, in a prepared statement, “making them an ideal high-volume CMOS foundry for the delivery of our single-chip products.”