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Since 2000, we have entered the age of sensing and interacting with the wide diffusion of MEMS and sensors that give us a better, safer perception of our environment. MEMS have grown in volume to be almost a 15 billion units market today. And we believe that this market will double to almost 30 billion by 2020, in less than 5 years! (Source: Status of the MEMS Industry, Yole Développement, May 2015).
Claire Troadec, MEMS & Semiconductor Manufacturing Analyst from Yole Développement (Yole), the “More than Moore” market research and strategy consulting proposes you to learn more about the MEMS & sensors challenges and identify the related opportunities for the next decade. So what can we expect?
Claire’s presentation took place at the MIG Technical Congress, in Munich, Germany. Full presentation is available on i-micronews.com, presentations section.
Since its early beginning, MEMS technology has been considered as a “transfer function” technology: taking existing products such as Hg tilt sensors, syringe, galvanometric mirror and transforming them in IMU , micro-needles, micro-mirrors. The interest of MEMS relies in the miniaturization and lower cost manufacturing brought by a semiconductor technology.
Today the MEMS & Sensors industry is transitioning towards 3 main hubs: the inertial hub (a closed package hub), the optical hub and the environmental hub (open package hubs)
Looking closely at the inertial hub, complete integration has been achieved at sensor level. The miniaturization race is still ongoing to lower the sensor cost and developments are focusing on advanced packaging technologies (e.g. TSV , WLP ) and power consumption reduction. Major developments occur at software level to achieve sensor fusion and get precise data acquisition, precise tracking within the environment. Hence the inertial Bill of Materials within a smartphone today is around US$1.
This is nothing compared to the US$10 spent for the optical hub within the same smartphone: imaging is highly valued by the end customer. This is part of our “human” nature, where vision represent around 83% of our external world perception.
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