Silicon Microphone Market 2007 - A sustainable market for 15+ silicon microphone manufacturers?

Published by: Yole Developpement

Published: Aug. 10, 2007 - 194 Pages

Table of Contents

1. Executive Summary

2. Methodology

3. Market Opportunity

ECM markets Key points

Market opportunity for MEMS microphones

Description of applications

Market evaluation per application

Market trends

4. Industry Status of Development

Product introduction schedule

Silicon Microphone Player Profiles

Current partnerships

5. Industry Organization and Trends

Business model comparison

Evolution of the ECM competition

From Analog to Digital evolution

Technology winners: monolithic vs. several chip solution?

Key drivers of microphone and handset manufacturers relationship

From microphone device to microphone module

M&A

6. Silicon Microphone Technology Overview

Microphone definition

Advantages of Silicon Microphones vs. ECM

Silicon MEMS Technology

Description of the principle detection

7. Silicon Microphones Manufacturing Challenges

Design

Processes

Cost analysis on several device types

Opportunity to decrease price

Development costs per players

8. Appendix

8.1 General overview of the MEMS Business

8.2 MEMS Manufacturing Overview

Key Differences between MEMS and IC Lines

MEMS typical flow chart

Micromachining technologies

Why integrated MEMS: from MEMS to Microsystems

MEMS processes challenges

Abstract

This report gives an accurate segmentation of the market potential of Silicon Microphones. It investigates the advances of the silicon microphones penetration across five fields: Telecom, Consumer electronics, Medical, Automotive and Security.

It analyses each application in details using the following criteria:

• Description of the application and the benefit of Silicon Microphones
• Function and specification requirements for Silicon Microphones
• Description of the market drivers and the integrators
• Analysis of the competitive technologies and players
• Analysis of the Silicon Microphones market
• Evaluation of market volume, average selling price, and market value on the 2006-2011 period
• Major players market share and potential new entrants
• Analysis of the technical and business trends

The report provides over 20 detailed company profiles (in production, sampling or still in development). Each profile analysis deeply the activity of silicon microphone company: products, technology, processes, R&D works and main patents…

Finally the main challenges facing the MEMS microphone industry are discussed:

• Product introduction roadmap
• Player development status mapping
• Business model comparison
• Evolution of the ECM competition
• Technology winners: monolithic vs. several chip solution? Analog vs. Digital?
• Key drivers of microphone and handset manufacturers relationship
• From microphone device to microphone module

This report not only describes the market at the players and applications level, but it provides a global view of the MEMS microphone market allowing to build diversification strategies taking into account the technical requirements.

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