STMicroelectronics and USound demonstrate advanced micro-silicon speakers at the 2018 MWC

March 5, 2018 - STMicroelectronics (ST, NYSE: STM), a leading global semiconductor supplier across multiple electronic applications, teamed up with a rapidly growing and innovative audio company USound demonstrated their newly developed micro-silicon speaker via an immersive 3D audio headset at the 2018 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The exhibit is a vivid 3D audio headphone with 14 slim and slim microphones that allow the wearer to find left and right and back and other events occurring in the virtual reality or augmented reality for the user A rich, immersive listening experience that improves the auditory perception of the visual AR and VR worlds. Large bandwidth and high quality bass allow these speakers to restore sound with a high degree of realism.

Anton Hofmeister, STMicroelectronics 'vice president and general manager of MEMS microactuator products, said:' Our demonstration at MWC 2018 shows how these small, high-quality advanced speakers can deliver realistic 3D audio. 'S P & # 6; Tra (piezoelectric sensor) technology, we help USound march into the large-scale market, realizes the revolutionary new application.

Ferruccio Bottoni, CEO of USound, added: 'For these advanced silicon micro-speakers, we have provided a set of 3D audio headphone development tools to help revolutionize customer development in games, general entertainment, leisure and professional use cases (training or simulation) Audio product. '

USound's Microphone Highlights include industry-unique, high-precision piezo-electric actuators that deliver unmatched levels of small size, low power consumption, low heat dissipation, and ultra-high sound quality that are unmatched by typical electrodynamic balancing armature speakers. These features can be used to develop hardware wearable 3D audio products to create a true sound environment.

These miniature loudspeakers are marketed under tight project schedules and are key to STMicroelectronics' piezoelectric sensor technology and MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) manufacturing processes based on proven Similar to the traditional MEMS and CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) chip manufacturing process.These actuators are extremely small size, high reliability, suitable for large-scale manufacturing, can achieve economies of scale.

For more information about the development kits and speakers available, contact USound.