MEMS & Sensors

MEMS microphones are one of the great success stories of MEMS. Only six years after product introduction, the market leader Knowles has shipped over a billion parts. That makes other companies hungry: Bosch and EPCOS bought their tickets for this high-speed train-ride in 2009. The track is bumpy, however, with 2009 witnessing a painful pull on the brakes with a 4% decline in revenue. Full speed will be regained in 2010 and MEMS will exceed one billion parts per year by...