International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) Newsletter

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IFSA Newsletter (ISSN 1726-6017), No.6, June 2007

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1.   Sensors & Transducers Magazine (e-Digest), No.6, June 2007

2.   Sensors Web Portal Up-dates Briefs

3.   Recently Published Sensors Books

4.   Accelerometer and Gyroscope MEMS Market

5.   Media Kit 2007 Up-Dated (June 2007)

6.   Subscribtion

7.   Additional Information, Comments, Suggestions

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Sensors Web Portal Up-Date Briefs

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• New issue of Sensors & Transducers e-Digest, Vol.80, Issue 6, June 2007 is in the DIGEST section with products and business news

• Ultra-Low Power Wireless Technologies for Sensor Networks - new book about design techniques for low power, highly integrated transceivers

• Magnetic Microsystems: Mag-MEMS - recently published book

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• Sensor Industry News subsection in NEWS section

• Sensor Industry News Archive section

• Sensor Industry News Syndication page (an opportunity to put latest Sensors Industry news feeds in your own blog, web site or get it on you mobile phone)

• Measuring and Control News page

• Accelerometers section with new articles

• Data Acquisition Systems (DAQ) section

• Humidity Sensors section

• Pressure Sensors section

• TEDS (Plug-and-Play Smart IEEE1451) Sensors section

• The following Lists of Manufactures were up-dated with new frequency and digital sensors from new and brand name manufacturers:

• Accelerometers list of manufacturers

• Flow Sensors list of manufacturers

• Humidity Sensors list of manufacturers

• Oxygen Sensors list of manufacturers

• Pressure Sensors list of manufacturers

• Temperature Sensors list of manufacturers

• Torque Sensors list of manufacturers

• Training Courses section with new courses in the USA

• Links Section with most detailed monthly up-dated calendar of sensors related events in 2007-2008 and conferences proceedings

• Media Kit 2007 (up-dated on June 2007)

• For Advertisers section

• Sensors Wish List with commercial requests and proposals

• New contents of of 'Sensors and Actuators'  A: Physical:

•     - Vol. 137, Issue 1 (12 June 2007)

• New contents of 'Sensors and Actuators' B: Chemical:

•     - Vol. 124, Issue 1 (10 June 2007)

•     - Vol. 124, Issue 2 (26 June 2007)

• New contents of Biosensors and Bioelectronics Journal:

•     - Vol.22, Issue 12 (15 June2007, Chem and Biosensing Transistors: from materials to systems, Edited by A.P.F. Turner)

• New contents and abstracts of 'Sensors and Systems' Journal:

•     - No.5, May 2007

•     - No.6, June 2007

New Published Sensors Books

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Accelerometer and Gyroscope MEMS Market

Inertial MEMS markets for consumer electronics applications, an expanding market

Gyroscopes and accelerometers market has been increased by 55% between 2005 and 2006. In 2006, the market reached 232 MUS$. An average 35% CAGR for 2006-2011 periods is expected. According to an analyst at Yole “the market dynamic mainly comes from accelerometers: about 65% of the total inertial sales by 2011. Consumer applications will progressively take a 40% share of the total inertial MEMS activity by 2011 (including automotive, medical, industrial, aeronautic and defence sectors).” The sales of the major players are rather concentrated on few contracts. For example, the 3 axis accelerometer manufacturers - such as ADI, STM, HKD, Kionix, Hitachi Metal etc - have sales ranging from 6M$ to 40M$ depending on the volumes they have captured (2006 estimations).

High performances Inertial MEMS market

Electronic Stability Control (ESC) is definitely the most existing application within the automotive area: more than 5 players have competing development programs in addition to the 4 in volume production today (i.e. Systron Donner Automotive, Bosch, SSS and Panasonic). Furthermore different technology choices have been made. While silicon based devices have been told to have strong cost reduction potentials, quartz based devices have very promising performances over large temperature range. The MEMS inertial manufacturing strategies are relatively stable in this area today but it will change. Most of the players have internal fabs today and half few new entrants are using external foundries. Inertial defence companies face the similar manufacturing challenges than the automotive industry. How to remain cost competitive with an internal fab? Invest in the fab to keep the manufacturing internally or transfer production to an appropriate foundry?

Yole Developpement will release end of May a specific report analysing the high performance accelerometer and gyroscope market: High performance inertial MEMS market report.

Mathieu Potin

Yole Développement

45 Rue Sainte Geneviève, 69006 Lyon, France

Tel : +33 472 83 01 80

http://www.yole.fr/

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