Four major applications, including connected TV, drive the MEMS and sensor market

According to Digitimes Research, the gradual maturity of process technology has driven the price of Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) and Sensor terminals to decline rapidly, and the scope of applications has also been able to expand from automotive, industrial, military uses to consumer electronics fields. Smartphones, Tablets, Connected TVs, Game Consoles and other popular consumer electronic product fields will all be designed and adopted, and it is expected that the four major terminal application markets will become the driving force The main momentum of demand.

Smartphones are based on a powerful operating system (OS) and numerous applications, and their use is no longer limited to traditional voice calls. For example, touch panels (Touch Panel), MEMS accelerometers (Accelerometer), etc. have long been widely adopted in the industry. Sensors, adding MEMS gyroscopes, magnetometers, barometers and other components can make the application fully function. It is estimated that the smartphone market penetration rate in 2013 will be 45%.

Relative to the conventional laptop computer (NB), where the use environment is mostly at a static office desktop, the usage situation of the tablet device is much more complicated. Therefore, the input devices are replaced with sensors such as touch panels, MEMS accelerometers, and MEMS gyroscopes to replace traditional keyboard configurations to enhance the control experience, and environmental sensors such as magnetometers and barometers are added to meet the needs of outdoor environmental applications. The penetration rate of tablet devices, including conventional NB, will exceed 27%.

Networked TVs require more delicate control interfaces than traditional TV remote controls, whether they use the TV to access the Internet or click on the Widget. Therefore, the remote control adopts touch panel display control and imports MEMS accelerometers, MEMS gyroscopes and other intuitive The design of the control interface has become a point of change for the connected TV. With the launch of the Google TV platform, Internet TV content will gradually become more complete, and it is estimated that the number of connected TV shipments in 2013 will look at 100 million units.

Game control interface innovation has become the key to the success of the home game console market. With the Nintendo Wii game console in the home game console market, Sony and Microsoft decided to get rid of the inertial test that has been preempted by Nintendo. Control, changed to optical sensing control and returned to the game console market. PS Move and Kinect were launched in 2010 to attack the market. It is expected that in 2011 Microsoft Kinect will use the optical control interface to turn over and drive the Xbox 360 back to the market.