Some news out the other day, but hard to estimate its impact. XBAR is being called a "new filter technology" and a "resonator" but not an actual "RF Filter". Is this an actual manufactured chip as opposed to a design approach? If so, will RESN seek to manufacture and re-sell them, or license their manufacture to customers? If not, will RESN seek to license this design approach for third-party use or can it be only used in designs RESN is commissioned to produce?
In any case, for now it's merely a simulation (though they have an excellent track record of accurate simulations).
I guess we'll find out a little more on Oct 23. A staggering drop in share price lately, and no new announcements of design wins, or tear-downs revealing in which handsets their chips are being used.
Next shareholder update could be ugly if we don't see royalty revenue up significantly.
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Resonant Inc. (NASDAQ: RESN), a leader in transforming the way radio frequency, or RF, front-ends are being designed and delivered for wireless devices, today announced its breakthrough 5G filter technology – XBAR – will be introduced for the first time at the 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), to be held October 22-25, 2018, in Kobe, Japan.
The new breakthrough is a fundamentally novel resonator, the building block of an RF filter. The technology is important because it is designed to offer a cost-effective filter operating at frequencies of 3GHz and higher, making it the first filter technology designed from the beginning for 5G.
“The high bandwidth 5G data services will operate at frequencies of 3.5GHz – 6GHz and higher, but today’s best filter technologies have limitations operating at these frequencies,” said George B. Holmes, CEO of Resonant. “The early results from our XBAR initiative are very promising and we are working hard to provide a cost-effective, high-performance option for 5G services.”
Using its ISN technology, Resonant has developed this new structure, which in simulations outperforms best-in-class FBAR resonators. The company filed patent applications on the technology earlier this year.
More details of the technology will be made available at IUS and in a press release that will be issued on October 23, 2018.
