GSA Silicon Series | Boston Abstracts

MEMS Overview

MEMS Industry Group (MIG) is the only trade association representing the global MEMS supply chain. Based on her unique vantage point, Karen Lightman, managing director of MIG, will give a brief overview of the MEMS industry, exploring how MEMS technology is used to enable a wide range of commercial products. With double-digit growth rates forecast through 2014, this growing $9B/year industry is diversified among myriad applications, markets and industries. Ms. Lightman will describe how a maturing MEMS infrastructure is delivering increasingly higher-performance system-level components at lower cost and with less development time. MEMS motion processing is a case-in-point. As the newest growth-driver on the block, MEMS motion processing isn’t just moving the needle on electronic components; it is actually driving the adoption of new applications, including game controllers and motion-enabled phones (portrait/landscape alternation, location-awareness), as well as tablets, IPTV remote controllers and e-readers.

Keynote Address: Today and Tomorrow: History of MEMS

Jalinous Esfandyari, MEMS Product Marketing Manager, STMicroelectronics,
will discuss the advancement of MEMS technology since its early days and where it stands today in terms of commercialization, and provide an outlook on global MEMS growth.

Panel Discussion: The Business Potential of Inertial Sensors

Yole Développement reports that inertial sensor usage in consumer electronics will grow 24% YoY during the next five years, indicating significant financial rewards and growth opportunities for the electronic industry. This panel will focus on how companies can take advantage of this growth by addressing: customer expectations in terms of a sensor or system solution; the MEMS M&A and IPO landscape; and the array of applications and features that inertial sensing enables.