The market for silicon speakers, including MEMS (Micro Electromechanical Systems) speakers shows excellent potential for emerging applications such as hearing aids, true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds and the so-called hearables. So far, only very few providers of this innovative and disruptive technology have managed to reach the market. SonicEdge is committed to develop a competitive solution that is able to generate high quality sound from what they believe to be the world’s smallest speaker.
SonicEdge developed a unique technology that generates ultrasound from multiple microtransducers, and then transforms the ultrasound to sound using a patented acousto-mechanical frequency transformer or acoustic modulator, contained on a solid state MEMS device. While a standard microspeaker has a constant sound level for lower frequencies and drops at higher frequencies, sound from a ultrasound speaker creates a volume velocity source, regardless of frequency. In microspeaker applications this enables increasing SPL for lower frequencies and extended SPL at high frequencies, up to 20kHz. The company's SE1000 solution includes the MEMS speaker chip that generates sound combined with an ASIC that drives the transducer.
Establishing a Danish business unit serves many different purposes for SonicEdge, including access to audio specialists and benefitting from the support of the unique ecosystem that Sound Hub provides for business development and promote its technology.
"We already have Danish investors and key competencies associated. Opening a business unit at Sound Hub Denmark is a natural next step to expand and get closer to our customers and partners in Denmark," explains Joel Beilin, Director of SonicEdge who has been working with Oticon and Siemens. "To establish a business unit in this unique development cluster and get access to the resources, competencies and matchmaking possibilities which Sound Hub Denmark provides is unique and perfect for us."
The establishment of a business unit in Denmark and within the European Union, together with the ability to be part of a dedicated business development environment focusing on audio technologies, was a major consideration for the move. "There are so many good reasons for doing business in Denmark. We find wonderful people with an amazingly open culture for collaboration and knowledge sharing. A labour market with a highly developed technological infrastructure makes it attractive to do business here. We can find investors who genuinely understand our business, audio companies, which potentially can become future customers, and universities with audio technology as their primary focus. This means we can access the newest know-how and potentially highly qualified employees," adds Ari Mizrachi, one of the company's founders, together with Moti Margalit.
SonicEdge has several patents protecting its technology, and are looking to promote their differentiation also on footprint, robustness, and power consumption. The company has activities in Israel and is currently looking for employees to build up the Danish R&D department.
Contact SonicEdge Director Joel Beilin by email here.
Established in 2019, Sound Hub Denmark fosters business acceleration in a professional co-working environment with in-house cutting-edge test and measurement facilities and workshops. Sound Hub offers unique access to a complete range of resources and professionals as well as a network of highly specialized industry leaders, mentors, and institutions based in Denmark. Partners include leading global key players within the international audio industry, including Bang & Olufsen, Harman Lifestyle, GN Audio (Jabra), Roku, Scan-Speak, Dynaudio, Aalborg University and Danish Sound Cluster.
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