Research and Markets: New Report: MEMS Accelerometer, Gyroscope & IMU Market 2008-2013 - Automotive Levels, Consumer Surges, Market to Reach $3B

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/038e9f/mems_accelerometer) has
announced the addition of the "MEMS Accelerometer, Gyroscope & IMU Market
2008-2013" report to their offering.

MARKET TRENDS

The motion sensing industry is huge and still growing. Some applications are
already mature, while others are just emerging. Successful MEMS providers will
be the ones able to deal with this changing economic landscape.

Some devices now integrate MEMS sensors as a commodity product. In other cases,
integration of MEMS is driven by regulation and the user is not willing to pay a
price premium for additional sensors and pressure on cost is enormous.
Successful players are the ones able to decrease manufacturing costs.

One strategy is to produce on 8" infrastructure. Signal processing is also
driving the development of future product generations. Being able to add
intelligence to the sensor is a means to offer strong product differentiators.
From supplying only a component, many players are now supplying a solution.
Algorithms are commonly integrated at the chip level: for screen rotation, drop
detection.

Another hot trend is the emergence of "clusters" integrating several types of
MEMS sensors: this is on the roadmap of inertial MEMS makers. An overall
difficulty here is to be able to fuse several types of inputs: highly complex
algorithms will be required. Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) which offer 5 or
6 DOF by combining accelerometers and gyroscopes are commonly used in the
defense & aerospace industry. Now that MEMS accelerometers are cheap and that
the level of integration of MEMS gyroscopes has increased, it would not be
surprising to see MEMS IMUs integrated into our mobile phones. This report
highlights why MEMS IMUs will be a very hot topic in just a few months.

MARKET METRICS

MEMS inertial sensors now represent a serious business: 752M units of MEMS
accelerometers and gyroscopes were produced worldwide in 2008, corresponding to
a $1.80B market already!

The major part of this market still comes from automotive applications; however
consumer applications should overtake this by 2011. In the automotive world,
massive use of accelerometers and gyroscopes is likely to stay limited to
current established applications such as airbag, ESC and TPMS. The annual growth
rate will be limited to 3.6% up to 2013, compared to 21.1% for the consumer
area. Indeed the adoption rate of motion sensors on many consumer electronics
products is rising faster than ever.

Bosch and ST Microelectronics are leading the global MEMS accelerometer market
with about 35% market share together. Challengers are numerous (Kionix,
Freescale, ADI) and new players continue to enter the market.

From the gyroscope side, the competition is now clearly between Bosch and
Panasonic for the automotive market. In the consumer area, multi-axis devices
(InvenSense) are gaining market shares over single axis devices. ST
Microelectronics expects to be as successful as in the accelerometer side with
its recently introduced 2-axis gyroscope.

REPORT OUTLINE

* Global overview across 4 fields : Consumer, Automotive, Industrial & Medical,
Aerospace & Defense
* 18 key applications are described in detail
* Overview of 11+ other applications
* Global market shares by type of component
* For > 28 players: inertial sales & market served
* 240 + slides
* Excel datasheets are included

REPORT HIGHLIGHTS

This report deals with the following points:

* How is the consumer electronics changing the MEMS motion sensor industry?
* How the automotive downturn will impact the inertial MEMS suppliers? Will
regulation ensure a bright future in this landscape?
* Which applications are the most promising in the very fragmented industrial &
medical field?
* Will MEMS IMUs be accurate enough to replace traditional inertial technologies
in the aerospace & defense area? Which new applications will it enable to
appear?
* What are the biggest opportunities for inertial sensors and combination of
inertial sensors for the future?
* Which players are successful? Why Invensense is becoming a leading player in
the consumer area? How will ST Microelectronics change the gyroscope competitive
landscape? Who are the newcomers? Which companies have difficulties?
* What are the key technical trends and challenges to overcome?

Who should buy the report

* Inertial sensor suppliers (accelerometers, gyroscopes, IMU modules)
* Integrators of motion sensors
* Equipment & material manufacturers
* Financial & strategic investors
* R&D centers

Key Topics Covered:

1. Technology review - MEMS accelerometers & gyroscopes
2. 2008-2013 market overview
3. Consumer electronics applications
4. Automotive applications
5. Industrial & medical applications
6. Aerospace & defense applications
7. MEMS IMU: the next very hot business topic
8. Inertial MEMS competitive landscape
9. Technical trends & perspectives

For the complete list of companies mentioned in this extensive report, click the
link below.

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/038e9f/mems_accelerometer

Research and Markets
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