Akoustis Reports Record Revenue for Third Quarter Fiscal 2022 on 25% Sequential Growth

• Second Consecutive Quarter of Record Revenue
• Driven by Growth in XBAW™ Filter Sales, Ramp Expected to Continue in Q4 FY22 With Sequential Revenue Expected to Increase by More Than 30%  
• Robust Customer Activity and Expanding Design Win Pipeline in 5G Mobile, Wi-Fi CPE, 5G Infrastructure and Other Markets
• Successful Acquisition and Integration of Remaining 49% of RFM Integrated Device, Inc. (“RFMi”) Expands RF Acoustic Filter Product Portfolio
• Company to Host Investor Update Call Today at 8:00 am ET

Charlotte, N.C., May 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or the “Company”), an integrated device manufacturer (IDM) of patented bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications, announced today a 25% sequential quarterly revenue increase to a record $4.6 million for the third fiscal 2022 quarter ended March 31, 2022.

Based on robust activity in both the sales and design win pipeline, the Company expects to report another quarter of record revenue in the current June quarter with a top-line sequential increase of greater than 30%. The Company had $55.9 million in cash as of March 31, 2022.

Akoustis will host an investor call to provide a business update and outlook, followed by a Q & A session this morning at 8:00 a.m. ET. The call-in numbers are 877-407-3982 (domestic) or +01 201-493-6780 (international). The conference call will be webcast live on the Company’s website and will be available for playback at the following URL: https://ir.akoustis.com/ir-calendar.

Jeff Shealy, founder and CEO of Akoustis, stated, “Despite the persistent macro headwinds presented by both COVID and semiconductor supply chain shortages, Akoustis was able to achieve record revenue and unit growth in the March quarter and we expect that growth to continue. This is being driven by production ramps of our patented XBAW™ RF filter solutions to multiple customers across the Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, 5G mobile and network infrastructure and other markets.”

Mr. Shealy added, “We continue to experience strong demand and a growing sales funnel for our Wi-Fi, 5G mobile and CBRS XBAW™ filters, as well as our new RFMi resonator and oscillator products. During the March quarter, we added another tier-1 5G mobile RF module customer, bringing our total number of mobile customers to five. We have also recently announced new Wi-Fi design wins, all of which are expected to ramp into production in calendar 2022.”

Recent Business Highlights

• Announced an order from a new multi-billion-dollar tier-1 5G mobile front-end module customer for the development of XBAW™ filters for mobile smartphones and other devices
• Announced receipt of a follow-on order to optimize design of a 5G mobile filter and shipped second design to tier-1 RF component customer in Akoustis’ new wafer-level-packages developed and manufactured in-house
• Received order to reiterate initial filter for tier-2 5G mobile customer and started development of resonator models for two additional filters
• Continued the migration of the development and manufacture of new Akoustis’ wafer level packaging (WLP) process into our New York fab
• Fully qualified 5.5 GHz and 6.5 GHz Wi-Fi 6E XBAW™ filter solutions
• Received two Wi-Fi 6E design wins for MU-MIMO router products from two customers, bringing the total number of Wi-Fi design wins to fifteen
• Continued production ramp with five Wi-Fi customers
• Shipped first samples of first diplexer product to leading Fortune 100 PC chipset customer and iterating engineering sample 2, expected to ship in June quarter
• Ramped initial production for two Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) customers
• Received design win for third CBRS customer
• Received follow-on purchase order for new XBAW™ resonator for the timing control market
• Continued DARPA direct-to-phase II (DP2) contract to advance design and manufacturing of XBAW^TM technology for filters and other sensors
• Completed the acquisition of the remaining interest in RFMi Inc. - a RF product leader with over 400 RF SAW resonator & filter and crystal resonator & VCO timing control products in its expanding portfolio
• Continued growth of its XBAW^TM patent portfolio to 58 issued and licensed patents plus 100 patents pending as of April 15, 2022

Akoustis is actively delivering volume production of its Wi-Fi 6 tandem filter solutions, shipping multiple 5G small cell XBAW™ filter solutions, delivering initial designs of its new 5G mobile filter solutions to multiple customers and is now entering the market with its new Wi-Fi 6E coexistence XBAW™ filter solutions. To date, Akoustis has received more than 20 customer design wins for its patented XBAW™ filter solutions.

Given the rapidly growing sales funnel activity as well as ongoing interaction with customers regarding expected ramps in 5G mobile, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E in calendar 2022, the Company plans to increase the annual production capacity at its New York fab to approximately 500 million filters per year.

Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Performance

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The following non-GAAP measures should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP measures exclude significant expenses that are required by GAAP to be recorded in the Company's financial statements and are subject to inherent limitations. Please see reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures below and descriptions of these non-GAAP measures under “Non-GAAP Measures.”

Non-GAAP Operating Loss and Non-GAAP Net Loss for the three months ending March 31, 2022, and 2021 were as follows:

Non-GAAP Measures

We regularly review a number of metrics, including Non-GAAP Operating Loss and Non-GAAP Net Loss, which are not financial measures calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”). Non-GAAP Operating Loss represents operating loss before common stock issued for services and gain or loss on the sale of fixed assets. Non-GAAP Net Loss represents net loss before change in fair value of contingent consideration, change in fair value of derivative liabilities, debt discount amortization, gain on extinguishment of debt, gain or loss on sale of fixed assets and common stock issued for services. The Company believes these non-GAAP measures provide useful information to management, investors and financial analysts regarding certain financial and business trends relating to the Company’s financial condition and results of operations. We use these non-GAAP measures to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions.

About Akoustis Technologies, Inc.

Akoustis^® (http://www.akoustis.com/) is a high-tech BAW RF filter solutions company that is pioneering next-generation materials science and MEMS wafer manufacturing to address the market requirements for improved RF filters - targeting higher bandwidth, higher operating frequencies and higher output power compared to incumbent polycrystalline BAW technology deployed today. The Company utilizes its proprietary and patented XBAW^TM manufacturing process to produce bulk acoustic wave RF filters for mobile and other wireless markets, which facilitate signal acquisition and accelerate band performance between the antenna and digital back end. Superior performance is driven by the significant advances of poly-crystal, high-purity and single-crystal piezoelectric materials and the resonator-filter process technology which enables optimal trade-offs between critical power, frequency and bandwidth performance specifications. 

Akoustis plans to service the fast growing multi-billion-dollar RF filter market using its integrated device manufacturer (IDM) business model. The Company owns and operates a 120,000 sq. ft. ISO-9001:2015 registered commercial wafer-manufacturing facility located in Canandaigua, NY, which includes a class 100 / class 1000 cleanroom facility - tooled for 150-mm diameter wafers - for the design, development, fabrication and packaging of RF filters, MEMS and other semiconductor devices. Akoustis Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in the Piedmont technology corridor near Charlotte, North Carolina.

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COMPANY:
Tom Sepenzis
Akoustis Technologies
VP of Corporate Development & IR
(980) 689-4961
tsepenzis@akoustis.com

Released May 2, 2022