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SEMICON West preview: Companies are scrambling for a piece of the growing market of MEMS microphones for mobile phones, where applications are widening and demands are getting more sophisticated.
Frontrunner STMicroelectronics is winning by a distance in the MEMS foundry race: outpacing mixed-model and pure-play MEMS makers alike by at least 5x. While mixed-model players earned more than pure-play foundries in 2010, the pure foundries are where growth is happening, says IHS iSuppli.
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) opened 2 2011 iNEMO Campus Design Contests, in China and Taiwan. The contest encourages students and young engineers to design innovative products based on STM's iNEMO MEMS platform.
ClassOne Equipment sold its 150th mask aligner, which will be installed in the Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at UAlbany.
tMt will help refine areas in IME's three-party collaboration model for MEMS prototyping and mass production for medical, consumer, and other applications.
The MEMS Executive Congress 2011, November 2-3 in Monterey, CA, keynote speakers include a strategist, financial expert, and technologist.
mPhase Technologies Inc. (OTC.BB: XDSL) completed its 2nd working prototype of a new automotive and marine product, reducing size by 20% and increasing the product's functionality.
Potomac Photonics added advanced quality control (QC) and inspection capabilities to its service offerings for micro-electronics, MEMS, micro-fluidics and other projects.
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) will install more EV Group (EVG) wafer bonding tools to research and develop advanced manufacturing processes for next-generation micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) devices, especially on 200mm wafers.
Rapid growth in mainstream consumer markets is changing the structure of the MEMS industry from an artisanal to a volume manufacturing business.