February 25, 2010 – 4:14 pm
Yole Développement recently published its annual ranking of the top 30 MEMS companies based on 2009 sales revenue — and it’s heartening to see so many MEMS Industry Group members represented among them.
February 22, 2010 – 3:49 pm
Contributed by Monica Takacs, Director of Marketing and Membership, MEMS Industry Group On February 11, I visited sunny Arizona for the Fab Owners Association’s quarterly meeting hosted by Microchip, a provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors. Microchip also provided attendees with a fab tour–an impressive facility and very interesting for me to see, because I [...]
February 17, 2010 – 6:04 pm
Whether it’s a new netbook, iPad, or smartphone that has your eye, almost everyone seems to crave sort of mobile information and communication device right now. Here’s just a couple of MEMS-related announcements from Mobile World Congress 2010, going on right now in Barcelona:
February 15, 2010 – 5:54 pm
HP and Shell are working together to re-purpose HP’s MEMS technology for use in oil drilling and exploration (Drilling with print heads: Shell and HP develop seismic sensor system – 15/02/2010 – Computer Weekly).
February 12, 2010 – 4:10 pm
Contributed by Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group For part I of this post, see Trip Report: ASME nEMB 2010 Conference – Part I. The conference began on February 7 with a day-long program/tutorial on nanomedicine, which I heard was an impressive program focused on graduate and undergraduate engineering students. I attended the programs [...]
February 10, 2010 – 9:35 pm
Contributed by Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group I am back in Pittsburgh’s snowmageddon after being in sunny Houston to attend the ASME First Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (nEMB) held February 7-10, 2010. For those of you who attended MIG’s MEMS Executive Congress 2009, you’ll remember how Dr. Mauro Ferrari [...]
February 8, 2010 – 9:34 pm
Sensor device-maker Gentag is commercializing a disposable “skin patch” sensing platform that will allow otrthopedic surgery patients to monitor themselves during their recovery. Gentag has already developed a number of other disposable diagnostic patches, including devices for fever and diabetes monitoring.
February 5, 2010 – 6:12 pm
Contributed by Frédéric Breussin, Project Manager, Microfluidics, Yole Développement Despite its exciting potential, point-of-care diagnostics has yet to develop into the big market many expected. Testing for infectious diseases now looks like the most promising markets, as companies develop more sophisticated integrated systems that go beyond simple immunoassays to molecular diagnostics at reasonable cost.
February 2, 2010 – 4:15 pm
Contributed by Jérémie Bouchaud, Director & Principal Analyst, MEMS, iSuppli The year 2009 started badly for MEMS, just like for the rest of the economy. Unlike other MEMS analysts who seem to believe that MEMS is immune to the economic crisis and that revenue stayed exactly flat in 2008 and 2009, the latest revenue reported [...]
