AAC Technologies’ acoustic solutions currently extend across a variety of “smart devices,” including smartphones, foldable phones, XR headsets, and laptops. At CES 2025, AAC presented several industry-first, self-developed solutions to elevate the acoustic experience for users of such products.
In the microspeaker front, AAC showcased a coaxial stereo solution that successfully miniaturizes hi-fidelity sound for smartphones. As AAC's first full-frequency miniature speaker, the Ultimate Speaker delivers expanded frequency extension for a broader sound spectrum and precise stereo positioning. The new coaxial miniature speaker is now in mass production and already embraced for leading flagship smartphones.
Expanding the company’s catalog, a new AAC ultra-clear speaker overcomes the constraints of typical laptop solutions by directly mitigating vibration at the source, achieving superior vibration reduction in a limited space. Additionally, AAC displayed a range of commercially available innovations, such as ultra-thin speakers, Whisper speakers, and Combo solutions.
In the realm of haptics, AAC continues to expand its product ecosystem, delivering quality haptic experiences across a wider range of devices and applications. This includes RichTap AI Vibration Solutions for mobile phones, RichTap Watch Solutions, RichTap Gaming Console Solutions, and innovative Side Button Solutions, all providing an integrated hardware-software experience with high-quality haptics for users. A highlight at CES 2025 was AAC's introduction of a compact yet powerful linear actuator. Additionally, the Auto Flip solution for foldable phones offers a new way to interact with mobile devices. The showcase also featured micro high-thrust stepper motors and high-precision coreless motors, enhancing the capabilities and user experience of robots.
In the micro-motor sector, AAC has launched a variety of high-performance rotary motors and innovative composite drive modules. These solutions encompass finger actuators tailored for robotic dexterous hands, as well as rotary and linear actuators for joints and moving parts. Applications span across a wide array of devices, including smartphones, game controllers, AR/VR glasses, and robots. These advancements are primed to boost the user experience of smart devices.
With decades of acoustic expertise, AAC's voice coil motor design and production processes are industry-leading, and highly automated production ensures consistent product performance. In precision manufacturing, AAC has extensive experience in consumer electronics components, thermal management, folding phone hinges, and antennas, all of which are in the industry's top tier. The LHP VC cooling technology features a gas-liquid separation channel, enabling a smooth unidirectional heat conduction circuit and improving cooling efficiency.
In optics, AAC Optics covers the development and production of WLG glass lenses, optical lenses, camera modules, and micro-nano optical components. Its self-developed WLG glass lenses and hybrid glass-plastic lens products are industry-leading, offering superior performance in refractive index, dispersion, reliability, and thermal stability, and are capable of mass production. Additionally, AMOT, a new subsidiary of AAC Optics (formerly CDA), exhibited a range of diffractive optical elements and AR-HUD light diffusers suitable for automotive, robotic vacuum cleaners, projection, XR, and other fields.
In the XR field, AAC offers high-quality VR Pancake optical modules, a single-layer full-color diffractive optical waveguide developed with Dispelix, and compact full-color Micro LED optical modules. Notably, high-end AR and AI smart glasses for leading clients globally have successfully achieved mass production, integrating AAC's self-developed comprehensive AI smart glasses solutions with high-performance computing platforms, superior video performance, high-quality audio, and excellent audio pickup capabilities. This outstanding performance is attributed to AAC's vertical integration of components that enhance user sensory experiences, such as cameras, speakers, and audio pickup solutions.
In the sensors and semiconductors segment, AAC highlighted products such as a new 70dB+ high-performance analog microphone, Windtalker digital microphone, bone conduction microphone, and hearing aid microphone. AAC Technologies also announced the Soprano Pro MEMS microspeaker, featuring a smaller size and improved performance compared to the previous models from the company. Also making its market debut at CES 2025 was a new VACC product, known for its low noise and high integration, making it suitable for TWS and automotive road noise cancellation systems.
Additionally, the CES showcase this year included high-precision barometric and waterproof pressure sensors, as well as combo units that integrate analog/digital microphones and pressure sensors, along with a full suite of RF modules.
Automotive Solutions
For smart automotive, AAC Technologies introduced its next-generation cockpit experience solutions, providing comprehensive audio, visual, and haptic solutions for automakers and Tier-1 smart car suppliers. In the realm of automotive acoustics, AAC set up a state-of-the-art 7.1.4 listening room at the event, showcasing its self-developed advanced automotive audio algorithms such as Independent Sound Zones, NLC PRO (distortion suppression), Audio Track Separation, Virtual Surround (Plus), Virtual Venue, and 3D Chime.
In collaboration with Premium Sound Solutions (PSS), the Belgian company specializing in acoustic components and sound systems, acquired by AAC Technologies in 2023, the automotive showcase at CES 2025 included an array of top-tier offerings, including automotive speaker products and solutions, which garnered significant attention. In terms of automotive haptics, the RichTap haptic seat solution made its debut, offering multi-modal interaction experiences. This enhances driving alerts, entertainment, engine simulation, and meditation spaces, providing a more peaceful and personalized experience. For automotive optics, AAC showcased its full range of automotive lenses and camera modules, delivering comprehensive visual solutions to ensure safety and intelligent driving.
AAC also presented a variety of automotive-grade microphones and modules, catering to diverse in-car and out-of-car voice interaction scenarios, thereby enhancing the in-vehicle voice experience. Furthermore, AAC displayed three high-performance MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) modules, offering high precision and stability for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving. The event also featured automotive motor products, including linear control braking and steering motors, as well as seat brushless motors, which significantly improve the driving experience.
Over the past three decades, AAC Technologies has consistently focused on innovation, and the company has now established a strong reputation, with 18 global R&D centers and over 14,000 patent applications. AAC has a strong competitive edge in various fields, including acoustics, optics, haptics, sensors, and semiconductors, and precision manufacturing. AAC has also been steadily expanding in the automotive industry since 2019, largely driven by the growing adoption of its automotive solutions.
www.aactechnologies.com
