Starkey Labs Inc. — 3 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address beginning with A8:00:E3, 9C:9C:1D, or 58:89:90 belongs to Starkey Labs Inc. — the IEEE-registered name for Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world's largest hearing aid manufacturers. These are the only three IEEE MA-L blocks assigned to the company, and all three carry the same registered address in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Starkey traces to 1961/1967, when founder Bill Austin started a hearing-aid service business; a 1971 acquisition of an earmold maker called "Starkey Labs" produced the merged Starkey Laboratories, Inc., which moved to its current Eden Prairie campus in 1975. The company remains privately held and headquartered there today.

Current products are Bluetooth LE Audio / Auracast-capable hearing aids — the Genesis AI, Livio, and Omega AI families — paired to phones via the Thrive/My Starkey companion apps, plus separate 2.4 GHz wireless accessories such as remote microphones and TV streamers that relay audio to the hearing aids.

No source found ties any of the three prefixes to a specific product line: the registry confirms company ownership of all three blocks, not which device class — hearing-aid radio, wireless accessory, or fitting/manufacturing equipment — each was drawn for. Treat any more specific device attribution as unconfirmed.

A coincidental "Starkey Rd" street-address match appears in two other IEEE registries (the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry), but it belongs to an unrelated company, MedRx, Inc., in Largo, Florida. It is not part of this vendor's footprint and must not be added to its prefix count.

IEEE assignment

3 prefixes → Starkey Labs Inc., registered Eden Prairie, MN, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry A800E3, the IEEE MA-L registry 9C9C1D, the IEEE MA-L registry 588990

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 3 confirmed MA-L blocks, no MA-M/MA-S rows found for this company [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry A800E3/9C9C1D/588990; the IEEE MA-M registry and the IEEE MA-S registry searched, no matches

HQ / country

6600 Washington Ave. S., Eden Prairie, MN 55344, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry A800E3

Company status

active, privately held [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starkey_Hearing_Technologies

Device types

Bluetooth LE Audio / Auracast hearing aids; 2.4 GHz wireless accessories (remote microphones, TV streamers) [Confirmed] — https://www.starkey.com/hearing-aids/bluetooth-hearing-aids, https://www.starkey.com/hearing-aids/accessories/wireless-accessories

Notable products

Genesis AI, Livio, Omega AI hearing aid families; Thrive/My Starkey companion apps [Confirmed] — https://www.starkey.com/hearing-aids/bluetooth-hearing-aids, https://www.hearingtracker.com/hearing-aids/starkey

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L, Starkey Labs Inc.)

A8:00:E3, 9C:9C:1D, 58:89:90 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry A800E3, the IEEE MA-L registry 9C9C1D, the IEEE MA-L registry 588990

Company history

founded via a 1961/1967 hearing-aid service business plus a 1971 acquisition of an earmold maker named "Starkey Labs"; merged as Starkey Laboratories, Inc.; moved to the Eden Prairie campus in 1975 [Confirmed] — https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/65/Starkey-Laboratories-Inc.html, https://www.company-histories.com/Starkey-Laboratories-Inc-Company-History.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starkey_Hearing_Technologies

Device-to-prefix corroboration

no source ties a specific product line to an individual prefix [Unknown] — no citation found in this research pass

Registration date

not published by IEEE for any of the three MA-L blocks [Unknown] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry has no date field; a third-party "date registered" would be a database artifact, not an IEEE fact

Related vendors

none confirmed [Unknown]

False-positive caveat

"Starkey Rd" address hits in the IEEE MA-M registry and the IEEE MA-S registry belong to unrelated registrant MedRx, Inc. (Largo, FL), not to this vendor [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry 78392DB, the IEEE MA-S registry 70B3D53B6

Analyst note

an A8:00:E3, 9C:9C:1D, or 58:89:90 OUI indicates Starkey Labs Inc. manufacturing — most plausibly a Bluetooth hearing aid or its companion wireless accessory — but no source pins which; don't infer an exact device model from OUI alone [Confirmed reasoning basis; product-level mapping Unknown]