MEMS - The Next Electronics Revolution?

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MEMS - The Next Electronics Revolution?

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Emcee: Sword	Type: Unmoderated

Introduction Compact

Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) is the acronym for a burgeoning new technology that holds great promise for the development of new devices for the communications and sensor industries. With this technology, moving structures are fabricated onto silicon chips along with, in many cases, supporting electronics. These moving structures might include 1 mm motors, optical elements, gyroscopes, accelerometers, etc. One of the first devices commerically produced was the vehicle impact sensor produced by Analog Devices and is used in most automobiles in the air bag system now. It has a built in moving accelerometer on the chip along with the signal processing electronics.

Parallels between the current state of the art in this technology and where the semiconductor industry was in the 1960's and 1970's lead me to believe that we may be in the beginning stages of a new revolution that holds great potential for profitability.

The question I would like this thread to discuss are:

What startup companies focusing on MEMS are currently being planned or have recently been launched and what are their products?

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121	UTEK has sold their 1-1 lithography stepper to MEMS manufacturers for a long whi	Cary Salsberg	-	10/2/2003
120	No pure plays IMHO Only equips i know of are TRKN and TGAL. Unfortunately TG	Will Lyons	-	10/2/2003
119	Who are the top 3 growth stocks in this field?	FR1	-	9/28/2003
118	Time for some action! TRKN sold a machine to Bosch for the production of MEMS	Will Lyons	-	5/7/2003
117	MEMS Overview Sandia National Laboratories Sacrificial polysilicon surface mi	Sam Citron	-	11/22/2002
116	Commercialization Issues of MEMS/MST/Micromachines: An Updated Industry Report C	Sam Citron	-	11/22/2002
115	MEMS targeting consumer electronics eetimes.com	Sam Citron	-	11/22/2002
114	Why MEMS Need to Be More Like ASICs Jim Lipman TechOnLine Content Director The	Sam Citron	-	11/22/2002
113	I think we all agree that MEMS is a very dynamic industry with strong growth pot	FR1	-	10/25/2002
112	MEMSIC Boosts Production Capacity boston.internet.com September 24, 2002 By C	waitwatchwander	-	9/24/2002
111	Telecom collapse affects Albuquerque's MEMS industry albuquerque.bizjournal	waitwatchwander	-	9/15/2002
110	Ambitious Plan To Give Sight To The Blind; "A Thousand Points Of Light"	waitwatchwander	-	9/6/2002
109	Adaptive Optics Technology Provides Powerful Tools For Eye Doctors sciencedail	waitwatchwander	-	6/25/2002
108	Micro medical devices could transform health care eetimes.com By David Lammers	waitwatchwander	-	6/21/2002
107	IBM pins dreams on tiny machines Wed Jun 5,11:16 AM ET John G. Spooner, Staff	waitwatchwander	-	6/5/2002
106	MEMS technology is working itself into lots of products. The fabrication techni	Sword	-	1/23/2002
105	I do not understand why mems are not the the new favorite subject. It seems that	memslover	-	1/22/2002
104	MEMS Make It Big ANAHEIM, Calif. -- One year ago, Xros made a big splash at the	Alan Gallaspy	-	3/27/2001
103	Some highlights from the Commercialization of Microsystems Conference in Santa F	Dan Hamilton	-	1/3/2001
102	I appreciate your comments since you obviously are knowledgeable about the proce	Dan Hamilton	-	1/3/2001
101	Their competitors also use thin films, although they are deposited on silicon wa	Sword	-	1/2/2001
100	Xerox in MEMS advance... lightreading.com	Dan Hamilton	-	1/2/2001
99	finally received an e-mail from jorin at gildertech informing me the first issue	jeraldo515	-	12/11/2000
98	"moi aussi". However, my "welcome new subscriber" email giv	Kimrric	-	12/5/2000
97	nothing yet. I e-mailed dynamic silicon last thursday. no answer as of noon tod	jeraldo515	-	12/4/2000

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