The Market for Next-Generation
Microsystems: More than MEMS!
Rob Lineback
Senior Market Research Analyst
IC Insights Inc.
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Microelectronics, Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
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Current Global Market Conditions
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The role of MEMS in semiconductors is fairly well defined
Laboratory structures created at Sandia National Laboratories
The micro-machined technology is being used in accelerometers,
gyroscopes, pressure sensors, micro-mirrors, microfluidic devices,
acoustic-wave filters, MEMS oscillators, and other actuators.
MEMS semiconductor products usually contain some level of analog
circuitry (to amplify, filter, and convert measurement signals, or
physically drive microelectromechanical structures) as part of their
transducer functions.
Most devices are multi-chip products today, built with MEMS functions
on a separate die from the rest of electronics circuitry in order to
optimize manufacturing steps, simplify designs, and lower overall cost.
But exactly what are Microsystems?
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MEMS
Sensors
MEMS
Actuators
Microsystems
Microsystems
• Wafer-level packaging
• System-in-package (SiP)
• Single-chip integration
• Compound materials
• Micro-injection molding of
polymers
• “Nano” technologies
• Wafer-level packaging
• System-in-package (SiP)
• Single-chip integration
• Compound materials
• Micro-injection molding of
polymers
• “Nano” technologies
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ITAC National Executive Forum on Microelectronics, Ottawa
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ITAC National Executive Forum on Microelectronics, Ottawa
MEMS-based Sensors
fall mainly into
two market segments
Acceleration & yaw sensors
(or “inertial” sensors) exceeded
magnetic-field sensor sales
for first time in 2008.
Accelerometers today represent
about 70% of inertial sensor sales
and gyroscope devices the rest.
Pressure sensor sales suffered
from automotive slump despite
new high-growth applications in
solid-state microphones, medical,
and tire-pressure measurement.
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Overall, MEMS-based Actuators have struggled
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Market Drivers of MEMS-based Sensors & Actuators
Early Commercial Applications (late 1970s into the 1980s)
• Automotive manifold absolute pressure (MAP) sensors
• Blood pressure sensors
• Capacitive & piezoresistive pressure sensors for industrial & other systems
Second Wave of Device Types & Applications (1990s-2005)
• Accelerometer-triggered car crash airbags
• Actuator inkjet printer nozzles
• Micro-mirror displays (such as TI’s DLP technology)
• Tire-pressure monitoring systems (TPMS)
• Solid-state microphone chips
• RF-MEMS, such as film-bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) filters and duplexers
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Market Drivers of MEMS-based Sensors & Actuators
Bigger Wave of Devices & New Applications (2005-2015)
• Inertial sensor-enabled smartphones, handheld devices, and video games
Display
auto-rotation
Motion-controlled
video games
Hand-gesture
& tap recognition
Drop
protection
Dead-reckoning
navigation
• Automotive electronic stability control (ESC) and new safety systems
• MEMS oscillators and timing structures for replacement of quartz crystals
• “Lab-on-chip” accelerators for drug, DNA, and disease analysis
• Ultra-low power color displays for e-readers and multimedia tablet computers
• Light processing and switches for next-generation optical networks
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Piling in on Cellular Phone Growth
•Steady handset growth
reaching 1.8 billion in 2014
•Convergence of digital
systems in mobile phones
-- About 92% will have cameras
in five years
-- Around 37% will be advanced
“smartphones” in five years
MEMS microsystems
also move into cellphones
with revenue values rising at
a CAGR of 19% to $1.95B
in 2015.
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