MEMS Micro-Speakers Blast Sounds from the Fab

The future of audio is silicon.

That, at least, is the pitch from audio company xMEMS, which recently announced availability of the world’s “only all silicon, solid-state fidelity micro speakers.” Designed by xMEMS and produced by TSMC, the speakers pair the consistency and efficiency of modern silicon fabrication with unique audio properties that, xMEMS says, traditional coil speakers can’t match.

Brian Lucey, a Mastering Engineer with credits on nine Grammy-winning albums, is impressed. “It’s a huge, huge leap in phase accuracy that we’ve never heard before,” he tells…