Founded in 2001, Akustica, Inc. is a privately held company based in Pittsburgh. Through a revolutionary technology known as Sensory Silicon?, Akustica products enable electronic devices to sense and respond to the world around them. 

By leveraging standard CMOS processes and MEMS technology, Akustica acoustic system-on-chip solutions combine the functionality of microphones with microelectronics and software onto a single chip. Only Akustica’s CMOS MEMS Microphone Chips - which were pioneered by Akustica co-founder and CTO Dr. Ken Gabriel during his tenure at Carnegie Mellon University - enable single-chip solutions with arrays of transducers and integrated signal processing that disrupt both conventional microphone and speaker technologies. Smaller and more reliable than the current crop of electret condenser microphones (ECMs), silicon microphones can be customized with advanced sound capture features and noise reduction capabilities.