The Driving Forces Of The MEMS Industry

Published:2011/2/11 19:55:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The MEMS market increased robust in the last year, and the growth rate was 18.3%. The newest research of iSuppli shows that this is only the beginning of increase in the MEMS and sensor market, and this trend will go on until 2014. The MEMS market’s periodicity is not as strong as the other industries; therefore, the economic fluctuation has small influence on it.

Overall, the influence on the MEMS market is less than the semiconductor market in the year of 2009. Therefore, the bounce effect was not obvious as the semiconductor industry. In MEMS market, the applications in the industrial area, military and medical care area are very important, which take twenty percent. Besides, the safety and discharge standard of the automobile has large influence on it.

In the year of 2011, consumer electronics and mobile phone market are the main driving forces in the MEMS industry. These two markets will increase by twenty-five percent in this year. In the consumer electronics and mobile phone market, the sales of MEMS will increase from 1.6 billion to 2.1 billion US dollars. It is predicated that the sales will be 3.7 billion US dollars in the year of 2014.

There were few mobile phones to use the MEMS gyroscope in last year, but the quantity will increase quickly in this year. The quantity of MEMS gyroscope contained mobile phone was less than five in last year. There will be more than forty-five mobile phones and tablet computers will use the gyroscope in this year, and most of them are based on the Android operating system.

Tablet computer will play an important role in the future MEMS and sensor market. Actually, many tablet computers, which were exhibited on the consumer electronics show, are equipped with the MEMS accelerometer, gyroscope, BAW filter or even the pressure transducer. In the year of 2014, the tablet computer must become the second largest MEMS application. The related integrated circuit is CDCE72010.

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