Akustica, the Pittsburgh-based company that has developed single-chip microphone technology, will unveil a new digital MEMS microphone for laptops, netbooks and tablet PCs next week at the 2011 Globalpress Electronics Summit in Santa Cruz, California. Akustica's President and CEO Stefan Finkbeiner will present the company's 4th-generation MEMS microphone and its first new product since Akustica joined the Bosch Group in 2009.
The Globalpress Electronics Summit is the annual gathering of electronics trade and business journalists who travel to Northern California from around the world to meet with top-ranked US electronics executives. Akustica will be on hand for the Summit's "MEMS Day," to be hosted by Alissa M. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., board member of MEMS Industry Group.
Dr. Finkbeiner, who holds a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, was appointed to his current post in 2009 after more than 20 years of engineering, manufacturing and marketing high-volume produced sensors at Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany.
Akustica is a supplier of silicon microphone products that, according to the company, are improving voice-input quality in a host of voice-enabled applications, from mobile phones to Internet telephony on notebooks and PC camera modules.
In the U.S., Canada and Mexico, the Bosch Group manufactures and markets automotive original equipment and aftermarket products, industrial drives and control technology, power tools, security and communication systems, packaging technology, thermotechnology, household appliances, solar energy and healthcare products. Having established a regional presence in 1906, Bosch employs over 20,000 associates in more than 70 locations in North America, with reported sales of $7.3 billion in fiscal 2009.
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