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Thursday, December 28, 2006

"MEMS: Yesterday to tomorrow at Analog Devices"

Today, startup companies are touting microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) as a new growth area, but Analog Devices claims it has been pioneering MEMS chips since 1989. Since then, ADI has shipped hundreds of millions of accelerometers for automobile applications, and just this year broke into consumer electronics by shipping more than one million three-axis accelerometers for Nintendo's Wii video-game controller. The company's MEMS chips will also eventually take on applications as varied as microphones; acoustics; medical diagnostics; drug delivery; RF-switches, -resonators, "oscillators, and "filters. Hear ADI tell all in this question-and-answer session.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196702401