The MEMS device market is faring much better than the overall semiconductor industry, but the MEMS processing equipment market is suffering the same fate as the semiconductor equipment...
China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has upgraded its MEMS department to an independent business unit. The company stated that it will begin volume...
MEMS microphone suppliers, including Knowles and Akustica, have extended their markets from notebooks to handsets, posing increasing competition for Taiwan-based makers of ECMs (electret...
Taiwan-based Foxlink plan to look for cooperation from panel makers to build a second mirasol plant in 2009 to fulfill the demand from both vendors and system makers, according to...
STMicroelectronics and Analog Devices (ADI) will separately begin volume production of MEMS gyroscope products in the second half of 2009, which is expected to heat up competition...
Opus Microsystems will enter trial production of scanning mirror chips for micro projectors in the third quarter with revenue contributions expected to begin in 2010. Opus will initially...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will begin volume wafer starts for MEMS client Silverbrook Research at its 8-inch fab (Fab 3) soon, with initial production targeting...
Motion sensing devices are not new. They have been used since the 1950s in the aerospace and defense field for navigation functions. MEMS versions of accelerometers and gyroscopes...
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has announced that a dedicated mirasol display fab in the Longtan Science Park in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan...
Accelerometers in recent years have emerged as a critical input device for some of the world's hottest electronic products, causing shipments to boom. This will make accelerometers...
Solid State System (3S), a Taiwan-based NAND flash controller design house, has recently developed its first single-chip design MEMS microphone, a company spokesperson has confirmed...
Taiwan's Chroma Ate, which specializes in automatic testing equipment, is co-developing testing equipment for MEMS (micro electronic-mechanical system) microphones with customers,...
International MEMS companies including Bosch Sensortec, Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics will introduce cost effective g-sensors (accelerometers) with prices reduced...
Germany-based Bosch Sensortec, a subsidiary of Bosch, will not employ Taiwan CMOS foundry services to make its g-sensors (accelerometers) because its has 14-years of experience making...
