MEMSIC Ships 1 Billion Sensors

MEMSIC has officially shipped 1 billion sensors worldwide. MEMSIC’s products, ranging from accelerometers to sophisticated inertial guidance systems, are used in a wide variety of applications including automotive safety systems, avionics, industrial controls and consumer electronics.

MEMSIC’s patented thermal MEMS technology is unique in that it enables the industry’s first and only monolithic accelerometers, where both the MEMS sensor and the signal processing circuitry are implemented together on the same CMOS die, the company states.

According to a company press release, are a number of unique benefits of this technology that have enabled tremendous commercial success across a number of different markets and applications. For example, the MEMSIC technology has no moving parts or resonance error, providing industry leading vibration and shock tolerance (up to 200,000g), and excellent reliability. This is critical for challenging environments such as automotive, construction equipment, UAV’s, and other applications where high performance and ruggedness are critical.

MEMSIC also offers a wafer-level accelerometer and AMR magnetic sensor technology.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.