STMicroelectronics made an announcement that it has shipped three billion MEMS chips till date.
ST’s total MEMS and sensor sales grew by 19% in 2012, reaching a total of approximately $800 million according to IHS. In the largest of these markets, motion sensors in mobile handsets and tablets, ST’s MEMS sales accounted for 48% of the market, well more than twice as large as that of its closest competitor, according to IHS.
ST’s MEMS sensors allows motion-activated user interfaces in many different popular consumer devices, including most of the leading smart phones, tablets, personal media players, game consoles, digital still cameras and remotes, making these more accessible and appealing to people. ST’s MEMS devices provide protection in laptop hard-disk drives, in many health and fitness products, and for car infotainment and enhanced navigation. These sensors facilitate environmental monitoring capabilities to consumer’s mobile devices.
Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice President and General Manager, ST’s MEMS & Sensors Group said, “Sensors play a crucial role in the evolving wireless world, in enabling the intuitive gesture-based control that is increasingly expected as the norm and in paving the way for new services and user experiences. From sensors to secure communications, from power management to display driving and projection, ST solutions are enabling wave after wave of innovation in the wireless world that is changing the lives of people everywhere.”
