The future of MEMS sensors in our connected world

The MEMS market is year after year growing faster than the average semiconductor industry. Over that time the largest technology driver for MEMS changed from automotive applications to consumer electronics dominated by smartphones. Beyond that, MEMS sensors become the heart of whole classes of new devices like fitness trackers, smart watches, virtual reality glasses and smart sensor nodes for the Internet of Things. Silicon chips are only one part of the MEMS story, you need as well special mixed signal circuitry, low power data processing, smart algorithms and connectivity to transform raw signals into meaningful information. Multi-sensor applications & modules are playing an increasingly important role.