September 6, 2011 – 10:30 am
Smartphones and media tablets drive expansion; 3-axis gyroscope is the star MEMS device Contributed by Jérémie Bouchaud, Director and Principal Analyst, MEMS, iSuppli The MEMS market for its largest and most dynamic sector, consumer and mobile devices, is set to generate record growth in 2011 on the back of robust exposure in smart-phone and tablet [...]
August 11, 2010 – 4:39 pm
Contributed by St.J. Dixon-Warren and R. Krishnamurthy, Chipworks Invensense is a leader in the MEMS gyroscope market segment. According to Yole, they experienced nearly 500% growth 2009 over 2008. They now hold the #1 position in the MEMS gyroscope for consumer electronics market. Chipworks recent had a look inside their new three-axis digital gyroscope, the [...]
Contributed by Laurent Robin, MEMS Market Analyst, Yole Développement Yole Développement released a new report dedicated to MEMS devices and sensors for smarphones applications: MEMS & Sensors for Smartphones Report. Yole Développement’s report provides market data on MEMS & Sensors for mobile phones: key market metrics & dynamics including unit shipments, revenues and average selling [...]
Contributed by Jérémie Bouchaud, Director & Principal Analyst, MEMS, iSuppli When a sensor makes it into the cell phone market it can consider itself to be in the “big league.” As iSuppli reports in the news section of this issue, Steve Jobs’ recent announcement of the new Apple iPhone 4G featuring a 3-axis gyroscope is [...]
Contributed by Jérémie Bouchaud, Principal Analyst, MEM, iSuppli iSuppli has just released its MEMS competitive analysis for 2010, which screens the revenue of almost 150 MEMS manufacturers—98% of the market—by device and application for the years spanning 2006 to 2009. Not only does this major ground-up and historical analysis provide a robust foundation for all [...]
Contributed by Jean-Christophe Eloy, President & CEO, and Jérôme Mouly, Market Analyst, Yole Développement This year’s ranking of the Top 20 MEMS foundries starts to shift East, as TSMC makes the ranking for the first time. TOP 20 MEMS Foundries – 2009 revenues Double digit growth at Taiwan’s Asia Pacific Microsystems (APM) and Touch Microsystems (TMT) also help [...]
Contributed by Jérôme Mouly, MEMS Technology and Market Analyst,Yole Développement Total MEMS revenues from the Top 30 MEMS suppliers tracked by Yole Développement slipped 5% in 2009, as the worldwide downturn hit consumer and automotive sales. But innovation still continued to sell. Companies with new, high-end products managed healthy growth, led by an eye-popping 500% [...]
Contributed by Richard Dixon, Senior Analyst MEMS, iSuppli Introduction Back in February 2009 the iSuppli MEMS and sensor team reported on trends in the automotive magnetic sensor market, and has since completed a comprehensive report on the whole market for silicon magnetic sensor elements and ICs – predominantly Hall, asymmetric magnetoresistive (AMR) and giant magnetoresistive [...]
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 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.
