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Rapid adoption of sensors in cell phones will create a $7.9 billion market
Mobile phone makers have rushed to adopted accelerometers, now including them in more than a third of all handsets. With the first handset to include a gyroscope hitting the market this summer, gyros will start a similar adoption ramp, to become an $80 million ...
ST workers reject MEMS investment, says report
The General Workers Union has called for further negotiations before a second vote is taken while the Prime Minister of Malta, Lawrence Gonzi, on Sunday (July 11) asked the workers not to "sabotage" an investment agreement he had reached with the company, the report ...
Boston Micromachines wins R&D 100 award for retinal imaging instrument
Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that a collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, Davis, and the Indiana University ...
MicroProbe tackles mobile consumer IC wafer test challenges with new MEMS-based multi-DUT, ultra-fine-pitch Probe card
MicroProbe Inc., a leading supplier of wafer test technology to the global semiconductor industry, today introduced the MEMS-based Mx-FinePitch (Mx-FP) product. This new class of probe card tackles the ultra-fine-pitch testing needs of leading-edge SoC and logic devices found ...
OEM Group adds foundry services to offerings
Beginning immediately, OEM Group will support the AlN market by offering high-quality AlN foundry services performed in the applications lab of its Gilbert, Arizona headquarters. Included in the recent acquisition of the Thin Films and PVD product lines from ...
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InvenSense files registration statement for proposed initial public offering
The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Piper Jaffray &...
WiSpry and IBM Collaborate to Develop Next-Generation of Tunable Mobile Terminal Front-End Technology
WiSpry, Inc., the leader in tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced that it is working with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to develop MEMS process technology and manufacture its tunable RF product roadmap. This development includes...
First MEMS gyro packed into smarter iPhone 4
According to EETimes, Apple (Cupertino, Calif.) continues to set the pace for its competitors by adding a three-axis MEMS gyroscope to complement its pioneering use of a MEMS accelerometer, which has since been universally adopted by other smartphone vendors. Likewise, by the ...
Freescale unveils new era of sensing with Xtrinsic portfolio
Expanding on its more than 30 year sensor history, Freescale Semiconductor is introducing its Xtrinsic sensing solutions – products designed with the right combination of high performance sensing capability, processing capacity, and customizable software to ...
Analog Devices’ digital vibration sensor receives best of sensors expo award from sensors magazine.
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications, has received a Silver “Best of Sensors Expo” award for the ADIS16223 iSensor® digital tri-axial vibration sensor. The ADIS16223 was recognized for...
X-FAB announces 8-inch MEMS center for cost-effective, high-volume, advanced MEMS production
X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading analog/mixed-signal foundry and expert in “More than Moore” technologies, today announced it will expand its foundry service to include 8-inch (200mm) MEMS wafer processing. Moving to the larger wafer diameter and ...
Domintech to begin volume shipments of MEMS accelerometers in 4Q10
Shipments of g-sensors are expected to expand substantially by the end of 2010 and total revenues generated by MEMS parts are likely to reach NT$100 million (US$3.11 million) in 2011, the company estimated. Domintech is currently outsourcing the production of g-sensors to a ...
Fujifilm unveils new silicon MEMS-based printheads
The new D-128 DPN printheads build upon the momentum and growing installed base of more than 500 Dimatix Materials Printers installed worldwide. These printers are used for an expanding range of materials deposition applications and developments. Both D-128 DPN printheads are ...
Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID Selects EV Group Temporary Bonding and Debonding Equipment for Developing Processes for High-Volume Manufacturing of 3D
EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that world-renowned research institute, Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID, has placed an order for two EVG temporary bonding and debonding ...
Rambus acquires Uni-Pixel display and backlighting intellectual property
Uni-Pixel, Inc. (OTCBB: UNXL), a production stage company delivering its Clearly Superior™ Performance Engineered Films to the lighting and display, solar, and flexible electronics market segments, today announced that Rambus Inc., (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world's ...
STMicroelectronics' newest 3-axis accelerometer: Stingy with power, spendthrift with features
With operating current consumption as low as 2 microamps, the 3x3x1 mm accelerometer is a perfect fit for motion-sensing features and applications in space- and power-constrained consumer devices, such as mobile phones, remotes and game controllers. The sensor provides ...
Analog devices’ MEMS gyroscopes provide critical internal and position information used to improve flight safety in helicopters
Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, is providing high-performance iMEMS® gyroscope technology for a new aircraft flight safety and training tool developed by Appareo Systems, a recognized ...
Analog devices high performance, low-power MEMS Gyrpscope enables applications in Harsh Industrial Environments
To address this growing demand for more accuracy, stability, and high vibration and shock resistance, Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) has developed the high-performance, low-power ADXRS450 iMEMS® gyroscope with digital output specifically for angular rate (rotational) ...
Nanoplas installs multiple HDRF® tools at Tronics' facilities in Grenoble, France and Dallas, Texas USA
Nanoplas, a leading global supplier of HDRF® Plasma Processing Equipment for MEMS, 3D Semiconductors and III-V compounds, announced that it has installed multiple tools in the two MEMS manufacturing sites of Tronics, a global leading manufacturer of integrated custom MEMS ...
Tango Systems joins Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) consortium, continues with 10th electronic packaging research consortium (EPRC-
“Tango Systems has been an active member of two key consortiums, MEMS and EPRC-10, launched by IME. The aim of the MEMS Consortium is to bring the emerging technologies of MEMS into manufacturing in Singapore and EPRC-10 is to address the integration challenges of ...
TEGAL receives silicon drie tool order from Uppsala University
Tegal Corporation, (Nasdaq: TGAL) an innovator of specialized production solutions for the fabrication of advanced MEMS, power ICs and optoelectronic devices, today announced it has received an order for a Tegal 110 S/DE ...
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Wolfson moves to the next stage with a new family of digital MEMS microphones
Already in demand by many of the world's leading consumer electronics manufacturers, Wolfson's digital MEMS microphones combine low power consumption, excellent audio capture, superior signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, enhanced sensitivity tolerance and a miniature low profile ...
SiTime ships 20 million units of MEMS First™ CMOS oscillators and clock generators
"SiTime offers the broadest portfolio of MEMS-based timing products, which are being adopted by large OEMs and ODMs worldwide," said Rajesh Vashist, CEO of SiTime. "SiTime has developed an unmatched expertise in MEMS and high performance CMOS analog to deliver ...
IDT aims CMOS at quartz/MEMS
IDT's MM8102 and MM8202 offer frequency accuracies of better than 300ppm and operate a frequencies up to 133MHz. By offering both packaged and bare die, IDT claims its oscillators can eliminate the need for bulky quartz crystals in applications where space is at a premium, ...
Microstaq continues expansion with strategic Chinese office
Microstaq Inc., a developer of the world's most advanced silicon MEMS-based fluid control technology, today announced the opening of the company's first Chinese office in Science City, Guangzhou, China. The office will be responsible for strategic growth in the Chinese HVAC/R ...
DiCon Fiberoptics announces 1x8 50um multi-mode optical switch in a single device
This allows multi-mode optical switch systems requiring higher port counts, primarily used in military and defense applications, to be reduced in overall weight, size, and power requirements. "As weight, space, and power consumption are critical features in... More MEMS BUSINESS/MARKET news
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