IntriCon Brings the Industry's Most Power-Efficient, Wireless Audio Streaming Hearing Aids to Market
March 02 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
IntriCon Corporation (NASDAQ: IIN), a designer,
developer, manufacturer and distributor of miniature and
micro-miniature body-worn devices, today announced that it has
completed phase one, as anticipated, of the introduction of the
NXP® Semiconductor’s NxH2003 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) audio
streaming SoC into IntriCon’s Lumen™ 155 product family. IntriCon’s
and NXP’s R&D teams merged exceptional hearing aid engineering
and wireless audio streaming semiconductor technology, to deliver
hearing aid devices that can stream wireless audio from IntriCon’s
wireless accessories, such as remote microphones, consuming only
2.6 mA current at 1.2 Volts, which is exceptional in the
industry.
Said Gorder, “Incorporating state-of-the-art, low-power
consuming wireless technology is a critical step in creating our
high-quality, low-cost hearing healthcare ecosystem. By integrating
NXP’s NxH2003 into our Lumen 155 product family, we can provide
outcome-based features, connecting our hearing aid devices with
various wireless accessories. We intend to launch this technology
coupled with a remote microphone into our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC)
and Direct-to-Insurance (DTI) channels in the first half of 2018.
Additionally, we intend to integrate this with our Sentibo Smart
Brain self-fitting software, which is designed to improve both
channel productivity and the quality of first-time fittings,
resulting in lower prices, greater access and increased customer
satisfaction.”
Said Bart De Loore, vice president of NXP’s Personal Health
business, “IntriCon’s Lumen 155 wireless audio streaming
performance is a great proof point of the performance of NXP’s
NXH2003. Optimized for use in hearing instruments, NXH2003 streams
wireless audio over 2.4GHz at industry lowest energy consumption
and smallest footprint. Similar to what NXP did with NFMI-based
MiGLO solutions NXP expects to deploy its industry-leading,
low-power BLE audio streaming technology in the adjacent hearables
market as well.”
NXP’s state-of-the-art BLE 4.1 certified solution measures only
7.25mm2 and has industry-lowest receive and transmit power levels
of 4mW and 7mW respectively. The NxH2003 forms a total solution for
ultra-low power wireless audio streaming as it embeds both an M0
microcontroller (running the protocol stack and application), as
well as an embedded CoolFluxTM DSP (running all of the
required audio processing including sample rate conversion and
audio [de]compression).
IntriCon believes this state-of-the-art wireless technology is
important to its strategy of creating an eco-system of care,
eliminating cost and access as barriers to the adaptation of
hearing aids. The company has patented certain aspects of wireless
self-fitting and remote update and adjustment of hearing aids. It
is believed that once the FDA has finalized the regulation mandated
by the OTC Hearing Aid act of 2017, the availability of IntriCon’s
wireless hearing devices will open the door to greater competition,
spur innovation and position the company as a leader in driving
affordable hearing care into the U.S. market.
About IntriCon CorporationHeadquartered in Arden Hills,
Minn., IntriCon Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and
distributes miniature and micro-miniature body-worn devices. These
advanced products help medical, health care and professional
communications companies meet the rising demand for smaller, more
intelligent and better connected devices. IntriCon has facilities
in the United States, Asia, the United Kingdom and Europe. The
company’s common stock trades under the symbol “IIN” on the NASDAQ
Global Market. For more information about IntriCon, visit
www.intricon.com.
Forward-Looking StatementsStatements made in this release
and in IntriCon’s other public filings and releases that are not
historical facts or that include forward-looking terminology are
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements
may be affected by known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that are beyond IntriCon’s control, and may cause
IntriCon’s actual results, performance or achievements to differ
materially from the results, performance and achievements expressed
or implied in the forward-looking statements. These risks,
uncertainties and other factors are detailed from time to time in
the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2016. The company disclaims any intent or obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements,
regardless of whether new information becomes available, future
developments occur or otherwise.
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