MEMS

Upon receipt of $6m in Chips Act funding, Oregon-based Rogue Valley Microdevices looked out-of-state to open its second facility. It will soon be opening the 50,000 sq ft facility in Palm Bay, Florida, expected to be the first 300mm-capable pureplay MEMS foundry in the US. “We tried for quite a few years to expand in Oregon,” said co-founder and CEO ...

The piezoMEMS market will reach nearly $5.7 billion by 2030, growing at a 6% CAGR (2024–2030), ahead of the overall MEMS industry’s 3.7% growth, says Yole. Beyond RF MEMS, dominated by Broadcom and Qorvo, 10 other product categories are choosing piezoelectric thin film deposition technology, including microspeakers, microphones, MEMS oscillators, autofocus and micro-cooling. Aluminium Nitride (AIN), including Sc-doped AlN, and ...

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MEMS-based loudspeaker company xMems Labs has appointed Chester Hwang as CTO. “We are thrilled to welcome Chester to xMems as our new CTO,” said company founder and CEO Joseph Jiang. “I have known Chester for some time and have always admired his exceptional technical background, especially in high-voltage mixed-signal design. His expertise will be instrumental as we scale our MEMS ...

Fab-less inertial MEMS company iNGage has raised €6m in first-round funding towards commercialising the six-axis gyro-accelerometer ICs that it claims will be suitable for short-term navigation. The round was led by Supernova Invest and 360 Capital, with participation from BNP Paribas Développement, Crédit Agricole Alpes Développement and CEA Investissement. Founded in February 2025, iNGage is headquartered in Grenoble and has ...

SiTime has added 0.46 x 0.46mm 0505 CSP resonators to its timing portfolio, with the Titan MEMS platform. They are based on SiTime’s sixth-generation MEMS technology, FujiMEMS and are “at least four times smaller than the smallest legacy quartz alternatives” said the company. The resonators are available either PCB-mounted for customer integration, or as bare die for co-packaging with SoCs ...

Raltron Electronics has announced IPx8 waterproof miniature mems loudspeakers “for wearables, hearables, smart eyewear and hearing aids”, it said. There are two: RSPM-2300.000-6001-GT-NS1: 6mm dia, 1.5mm thick, resonating around 2.3kHz RSPM-5000.5001-GT-NS2: 5mm dia 1.5mm thick, resonating around 5kHz Frequency response is dependent on the engineering of the acoustic path between speaker and ear, and they need a open path to ...

Rutronik is aiming at tyre pressure monitoring with a 4.5 x 3.5mm DFN that contains a MEMS pressure sensor, a Bluetooth LE 5.4* radio, a microcontroller, a two-axis MEMS accelerometer and temperature sensing. It is the SMP290, made by Bosch. “Measurement data or updates can be encrypted [AES-128] for transmission with the customer-specific application software,” said the component distributor. “As ...

The 2024 MEMS market grew 5% y-o-y to reach $15.4 billion, says Yole, and has a 3.7% CAGR 2024-30 to reach $19.2 billion after a difficult 2023 marked by excessive inventories. “After a challenging correction cycle, MEMS companies have emerged more resilient and strategically aligned,” says Yole’s Clyde Midelet, “MEMS leaders are leveraging diversified portfolios, smart sensing technologies, and targeted ...

Menlo Microsystems is demonstrating a way to scale its MEMS relays – micro electromechanical relays – to “power distribution and control systems to 10MW and beyond” today at PICM in Nuremberg. Based on the company’s MM9200 300V 10A single-pole single-throw switch, the demonstration is of technology behind a 1,000V and 10,000A circuit breaker being designed for the US Navy. According ...