According to Bloomberg, following the full domestic production of 70dB SNR MEMS microphones in January this year, AAC Technologies has recently announced the establishment of a global microphone research and development center in the UK to accelerate its global layout in the field of MEMS technology.
As one of the major global providers of MEMS microphones, AAC Technologies has accumulated more than ten years of research, development, and manufacturing experience by means of international M&A and independent development, and is technically capable of independently designing MEMS chips. The head of AAC Edinburgh MEMS R&D Center said the center, once launched, will start to develop next-generation products and make them smaller with a higher signal-to-noise ratio, lower power consumption, and better performance. In addition, AAC Technologies will keep optimizing the advanced programming design to apply MEMS microphones in new scenarios and new equipment as soon as possible, such as keyword detection, speech recognition, multilingual recognition, and customized wake-up words.
According to the prediction of Yole, a research firm, the market scale of MEMS microphones will reach USD 1.6 billion in 2024. Especially, the expanding demand for various smart devices and massive applications like true wireless stereo (TWS), smart speakers, and 5G will lead to a broad market of MEMS microphones.
The Zhitong Caijing app was told that AAC Technologies has significantly sped up their paces in MEMS microphones since 2020. In January 2020, AAC Technologies succeeded in massively producing 70dB SNR MEMS microphones with its independently developed core technologies, making it one of the world’s top MEMS suppliers. This marks China’s first breakthrough from zero on chips of this type, which outperform competitive products of the same kind with a power consumption 30% lower and a cost 50% lower. Now AAC Technologies has established sound partnerships with Amazon, Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo in the field of MEMS microphones.
The establishment of the Edinburgh MEMS R&D Center helps AAC Technologies leverage Edinburgh’s world-leading AI research and development capability and talent pools to further improve its global R&D layout and gain the upper hand with advanced technologies in the present era of 5G.