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Eden Prairie, Minnesota (July 12, 2023) – Starkey is proud to announce its all-new Genesis AI hearing aids have been named the Gold Globee® Award winner in the Health and Pharmaceuticals Product category of the 2023 American Business Awards. This annual international award recognizes outstanding products that set industry benchmarks in excellence. This is the second consecutive year Starkey has received this recognition and marks the fifth award won for the completely redesigned hearing technology since its launch this February.

“At Starkey, product development begins by pushing the edge of what’s possible,” said Starkey President and CEO Brandon Sawalich. “We set out to engineer a product from the inside out, and as a result, we’ve created the smartest, most intuitive product, worthy of recognition for excellence. Congratulations to the entire Starkey team for this well-deserved honor.”

Starkey’s Genesis AI is leading the hearing industry in redefining the future of hearing health, not just with incremental improvements, but with breakthrough benefits. The all-new Starkey Neuro Processor within Genesis AI features the industry’s most advanced processor technology, which mimics the function of the central auditory system through an on-chip Deep Neural Network accelerator. It is not only the smallest processor ever engineered by Starkey, but also the most powerful with 6X more transistors. It is also loaded with 5X more computational memory and 10X the amount of non-volatile memory. Moreover, with a power-efficient architecture, Genesis AI offers more than double the battery life compared to previous technology.

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About Starkey
Starkey is a privately held, global hearing technology company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Founded by Bill Austin in 1967, Starkey is known for its innovative design, development, and distribution of comprehensive digital hearing systems. Led today by President and CEO Brandon Sawalich, Starkey is the only American-owned provider of hearing technologies. The company has more than 5,000 employees, operates 29 facilities and does business in more than 100 markets worldwide. Learn more at starkey.com.