Research and Markets: Global and China MEMS Industry Report Reveals Both Global Consumer Electronics and Automobile Sales Have Dropped

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c3c7a0/global_and_china_m) has
announced the addition of the "Global and China MEMS Industry Report, 2008-2009"
report to their offering.

MEMS, abbreviated for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, is a semiconductor
technology integrating mechanics and electronics, which got widely applied for
auto airbag preliminarily, and then for all the other auto industries via MEMS
sensor. With the further development of MEMS technology, as well as the
characteristics of application terminals such as lightness, thinness, shortness
and smallness, the demand for small MEMS products with high performance shoots
up, and the fields like consumer electronics and medical care also increasingly
require large quantity MEMS products.

Apple iPhone series, beyond doubt, has promoted MEMS application in cell phone,
and after iPhone, more and more MEMS cell phones will be in prevalence. MEMS in
the components of portable devices consist of gyroscope, new-generation triaxial
accelerometer, pressure sensor and module design. Besides browsing web pages via
touch, scrolling web pages via inclining cell phone, and displaying pictures by
the change of cell phone direction and angle, it can also be step counter, guide
interface, LBS positioning information service, HDD anti-collision protection
from geocentric gravity, individual inertial navigation, intelligence
interactive game etc. The cell phones with in-built MEMS function also can be
used to measure absolute atmosphere or as the sensing device. In addition, the
cell phone MEMS sensor can judge the distance of cell phone to ear skin so that
it can close display screen automatically, and the electricity source can be
saved.

Impacted by global economic downturn in 2008, both global consumer electronics
and automobile sales have dropped, which continues in 2009. The two American
auto giants are faced with bankruptcy, which has given a heavy blow to MEMS
market. However, MEMS still has a bright prospect since the rising portion of
MEMS application in single products in spite of a decline in consumer
electronics shipment. Moreover, the compulsory configuration regulations
launched by the countries in Europe and America in auto ESC and TPMS fields have
secured the steady supply of MEMS products.

MEMS products are mostly customized, which has higher requirements on wafer
fabs. Therefore, Scarcely wafer fabs in Mainland China have entered the field.
However, at the end of Oct, 2008, SMIC announced to enter MEMS OEM, and in early
2009 the top visiting group of Founder Microelectronics INC visited many MEMS
companies in Taiwan. As it is said that Shanghai and Wuxi are planned to
establish MEMS industrial parks, and China's MEMS insiders are also seeking
chances to share opportunities that MEMS industry has brought.

Companies Mentioned:

* Colibrys
* Neostones
* Memscap
* IMT
* SMI
* X-Fab
* Tronic's Microsystems
* TI
* ADI
* Freescale
* Kionix
* Akustica
* Knowles Acoustics
* Bosch
* VTI
* Sonion MEMS
* HL PLANAR
* DENSO
* Omron
* MATSUSHITA
* OKi
* MEMSIC
* First MEMS
* AMP

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