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Strong foundry growth for MEMS
Yole Développement release a review of MEMS foundries
Whether companies are setting the strategy for a foundry, or selecting a foundry partner for their product, now more than ever before, the choices made today will determine their future survival. With competition increasing from a variety of players, MEMS foundries need to solidify their business model, clarify their positioning and streamline their offering to insure long term success.
Yole Développement has released a new study dedicated to the MEMS foundry business:
MEMS Foundry 2009. Supported by Yole's MEMS expertise, this report presents key market & technologies trends for the MEMS foundries. The report will help the MEMS companies to understand characteristics of foundries: they will be able to identify their future production partners easily, understand the key MEMS foundry dynamics today and gain insights into the evolution of the MEMS Foundry business.
MEMS foundries are the new key players of the MEMS industry. Major open MEMS foundries are now profitable and most are moving to upgrade to 8‐inch production lines. Growth of consumer applications and other high potential market opportunities have attracted new entrants coming from mainstream semiconductor, leveraging their high volume production lines combining CMOS technology and MEMS.
A heated competition will start between established MEMS foundries and these new players experienced in volume production. The MEMS Foundry market is still very fragmented. The largest markets for MEMS foundries are inkjet printheads using mainly "exclusive" foundry services, but open foundries are developing innovative platforms addressing new applications like RF‐MEMS or microphones and developing different approaches of product platform from fixed process to Multi‐project Wafer (MPW).
"While the foundry business experienced a booming 22% growth to reach $480 million in 2008, MEMS foundries do not expect more than single digit revenue increase for 2009 with low visibility on bookings", says Jérôme Mouly, Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement.
MEMS market share captured by foundries is increasing for most products because the structure of the MEMS industry is stabilizing with emerging MEMS companies choosing "fabless" or "fablite" business models and sharing the production risks of new products with the MEMS foundries.
Yole Développement has released a new study dedicated to the MEMS foundry business:
MEMS Foundry 2009. Supported by Yole's MEMS expertise, this report presents key market & technologies trends for the MEMS foundries. The report will help the MEMS companies to understand characteristics of foundries: they will be able to identify their future production partners easily, understand the key MEMS foundry dynamics today and gain insights into the evolution of the MEMS Foundry business.
MEMS foundries are the new key players of the MEMS industry. Major open MEMS foundries are now profitable and most are moving to upgrade to 8‐inch production lines. Growth of consumer applications and other high potential market opportunities have attracted new entrants coming from mainstream semiconductor, leveraging their high volume production lines combining CMOS technology and MEMS.
A heated competition will start between established MEMS foundries and these new players experienced in volume production. The MEMS Foundry market is still very fragmented. The largest markets for MEMS foundries are inkjet printheads using mainly "exclusive" foundry services, but open foundries are developing innovative platforms addressing new applications like RF‐MEMS or microphones and developing different approaches of product platform from fixed process to Multi‐project Wafer (MPW).
"While the foundry business experienced a booming 22% growth to reach $480 million in 2008, MEMS foundries do not expect more than single digit revenue increase for 2009 with low visibility on bookings", says Jérôme Mouly, Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement.
MEMS market share captured by foundries is increasing for most products because the structure of the MEMS industry is stabilizing with emerging MEMS companies choosing "fabless" or "fablite" business models and sharing the production risks of new products with the MEMS foundries.
