For the 5th consecutive year, the ranking of the MEMS companies by sales in 2007 was published. The preliminary ranking published in January 2008 has been updated, taking into account the identification of new players entering the MEMS business and also fine tuning the 2007sales of the existing players. Sanyo is now entering the MEMS Top 30 ranking. With sales of $50M (MEMS foundry activity), Sanyo is now ranked behind Omron ahead of Silicon Sensing Sys-tems. STMicroelectronics has had a great 2007 year: The MEMS foundry services to HP and Kodak and other companies increased but what is impressive is the multipli-cation by 3 of the acceleration sensor sales. Now STMicroelectronics is the number 4 MEMS manufacturer, just after HP, Texas Instruments and Bosch.
World market for Micro Electromechanical Systems is forecast to maintain a CAGR of over 12.3% over 2001-2010 and reach in excess of US$8.65 billion by the end of the decade. Telecommunication segment represents the fastest growing market for MEMS and would continue to register impressive growth at a compounded annual rate of 30.95% for the years 2001-2010.
Microelectronics, which has led to the explosion of consumer electronics sales, can now bring its added value to life science applications. The key challenge for microelectronics is to make complexity invisible and adapt it to the value chain and way of working to the life science industries.
The technical issues for innovative 3D packaging at the wafer level are close to be solved. The new market research report defines 3D as the most "integrated" approach and as an enabling technology platform applicable to digital and mixed signal electronics, wireless, electro-optical, MEMS, sensors, smart imagers, displays and other devices.
The market for optoelectronics, sensors/actuators, and discretes (O-S-D) is often overshadowed by the sheer size of IC revenues, but the market for this diverse group of semiconductors is forecast to outpace integrated circuit sales growth with an annual average increase of nearly 10% per year in the 2006-2011 period compared to about 9% for ICs.
The world sensors market is expected to reach US$61.4 billion by 2010. The advent of micro-technology has revolutionized the electronics industry so much so that miniaturization has now become one of the buzzwords across the globe. Further, the role played by the micro-technology is enormous and sensors, as an offshoot of this know-how, are used in most of the industrial electronic applications.
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