September 4, 2009 - Industry News
Canada opens 200mm MEMS, 3D WLP center
A new Microelectronics Innovation Center is being formed at the Université de Sherbrooke in Bromont, Québec, to focus on 200mm ...
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August 26, 2009 - Industry News
MEMS-based system market to generate $13B supply chain revenue in 2012
MEMS-based systems were a $46 billion business in 2008, and despite the recession should still see 12% compound average annual growth (CAGR) ...
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August 7, 2009 - Industry News
JC Eloy: What's in store for MEMS
Jean Christophe (J.C.) Eloy, president and CEO of Yole Développement, talks with Small Times' Pete Singer at SEMICON West, about the MEMS market and ...
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July 16, 2009 - Industry News
SEMICON West: MEMS key to leading-edge semiconductors?
Semiconductors are at the heart of what is deemed "nanotech" in the electronics manufacturing world, having been working at the submicron ...
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July 7, 2009 - Industry News
MEMS equipment diffuses into mainstream IC markets, finds ways to improve yields
Though the MEMS market has remained essentially flat in 2008 and 2009, as plenty of new consumer and medical applications continued healthy ...
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July 1, 2009 - Industry News
MEMS tool market on the rebound
MEMS device demand has held steadier than the overall semiconductor market, but the market for equipment to make MEMS devices has struggled like ...
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June 26, 2009 - Technology News
MEMSIC uncrates tri-axis magnetic sensor
MEMSIC, Inc. announced the release of its new Tri-Axis Magnetic Sensor, the MMC3120XM, which will enable the integration of digital compass ...
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June 12, 2009 - Industry News
Chinese Micro Electro-MECHANICAL Market Set to Bounce Back
China's micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) market is estimated to bounce back in 2010 and begin achieving market revenues of 20.99 ...
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May 18, 2009 - Industry News
MEMS Fab Company Tegal Establishes Subsidiary in France
Tegal Corporation announced the establishment of Tegal France, a wholly owned subsidiary, with offices located in the Haute Savoie capital of ...
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March 3, 2009 - Technology News
MEMS-based camera 'recession proof,' Pixavi says
Pixavi has launched a MEMS-featured videoconferencing camera that it is billing as "recession-proof technology." The Xcaster, the Norway-based ...
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February 23, 2009 - Technology News
EPCOS's tiny sensor comes with MEMS packaging
EPCOS AG is introducing what the Munich-based company is calling the world's most compact packaged sensors for barometric pressure ...
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February 18, 2009 - Technology News
Graphene: The Strongest Material Ever Examined
Graphite is one of the best known solid lubricants. This material exhibits a lattice crystalline structure that contains layers or ...
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February 5, 2009 - Technology News
Korea develops MEMS telescope/camera
Researchers at Korea's Ewha Womans University have developed a MEMS-based combination telescope and camera that can "instantly track and film ...
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February 5, 2009 - Industry News
Infinite Power ships first micro-energy cells
Infinite Power Solutions Inc., which develops and commercializes solid-state, rechargeable thin-film batteries, has sent out its first ...
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January 28, 2009 - Industry News
Cell phones drive market for MEMS switches
MEMS switches and varicap products are finding their way into commercial products despite the economic downturn, thanks to increased interest ...
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January 14, 2009 - Technology News
Vectron's MEMS-based Oscillator Selected as Product of the Year by Electronic Design
Compact Oscillator, Ideal for Manufactures of Smart Munitions, Projectile Electronics, Missiles, Gun-Hardened and other High-Shock and Vibration ...
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December 31, 2008 - Industry News
Cadence Asia president expects $150B in MEMS sales
MEMS will rack up sales worth $150 billion if its parts can be mass-produced, said the president of Cadence Design Systems' Asian ...
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December 9, 2008 - Technology News
Memscap debuts nano-MUMPS service
Memscap, a provider of innovative solutions based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, is now offering a Mumps ...
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October 22, 2008 - Technology News
Wolfson introduces high-performing ultracompact MEMS microphones
Wolfson Microelectronics has launched the first devices in its new family of silicon microphones due for release over the next 12 months ...
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October 9, 2008 - Technology News
Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture: Self-Assembling Nanotechnology
IBM announced the first-ever application of a breakthrough self-assembling nanotechnology to conventional chip manufacturing, ...
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September 26, 2008 - Technology News
Microscale pumps, turbines to be reality
A team of researchers at the U. of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, funded by the US Army Research Laboratory and US Army ...
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September 12, 2008 - Technology News
SRI International, Elionix to advance FRASTA technology
SRI International is using a new scanning electron microscope (SEM) to further develop fracture surface topography analysis (FRASTA) ...
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September 10, 2008 - Industry News
Virtus, Acutronic developing MEMS inertial testing tools
Virtus Advanced Sensors and Acutronic USA announced a collaboration to develop advanced tools for the testing of 5- and 6-axis MEMS inertial ...
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August 4, 2008 - Industry News
IBM Invests $1b in Dutchess Plant
IBM is investing in the lower Hudson Valley to the tune of $1 billion, which it says will go to the East Fishkill semiconductor plant over ...
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August 1, 2008 - Industry News
Next big MEMS market is cell phones
A new report from Yole Développement criticizes MEMS-based sensor and actuator firms for not figuring out how tap into what it says is the ...
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