MEMS Accelerometer, Gyroscope and IMU Market 2008-2013
Published By: Yole Developpement
June 2009
R393-103
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Description
The motion sensing industry is huge and still growing. Some applications are already mature, while others are just emerging. Successful MEMS providers will be the ones able to deal with this changing economic landscape.
Some devices now integrate MEMS sensors as a commodity product. In other cases, integration of MEMS is driven by regulation and the user is not willing to pay a price premium for additional sensors and pressure on cost is enormous. Successful players are the ones able to decrease manufacturing costs.
One strategy is to produce on 8” infrastructure. Signal processing is also driving the development of future product generations. Being able to add intelligence to the sensor is a means to offer strong product differentiators. From supplying only a component, many players are now supplying a solution. Algorithms are commonly integrated at the chip level: for screen rotation, drop detection…
Another hot trend is the emergence of "clusters" integrating several types of MEMS sensors: this is on the roadmap of inertial MEMS makers. An overall difficulty here is to be able to fuse several types of inputs: highly complex algorithms will be required. Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) which offer 5 or 6 DOF by combining accelerometers and gyroscopes are commonly used in the defense & aerospace industry. Now that MEMS accelerometers are cheap and that the level of integration of MEMS gyroscopes has increased, it would not be surprising to see MEMS IMUs integrated into our mobile phones. This report highlights why MEMS IMUs will be a very hot topic in just a few months.
MARKET METRICS
MEMS inertial sensors now represent a serious business: 752M units of MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes were produced worldwide in 2008, corresponding to a $1.80B market already!
The major part of this market still comes from automotive applications; however consumer applications should overtake this by 2011. In the automotive world, massive use of accelerometers and gyroscopes is likely to stay limited to current established applications such as airbag, ESC and TPMS. The annual growth rate will be limited to 3.6% up to 2013, compared to 21.1% for the consumer area. Indeed the adoption rate of motion sensors on many consumer electronics products is rising faster than ever.
Bosch and ST Microelectronics are leading the global MEMS accelerometer market with about 35% market share together. Challengers are numerous (Kionix, Freescale, ADI…) and new players continue to enter the market.
From the gyroscope side, the competition is now clearly between Bosch and Panasonic for the automotive market. In the consumer area, multi-axis devices (InvenSense…) are gaining market shares over single axis devices. ST Microelectronics expects to be as successful as in the accelerometer side with its recently introduced 2-axis gyroscope.
REPORT OUTLINE
Global overview across 4 fields : Consumer, Automotive, Industrial & Medical, Aerospace & Defense
18 key applications are described in detail:
- Motivation to use inertial sensors
- market dynamics
- Technical and business trends
- Penetration of inertial sensors
- Market in value and in units, ASP
- Key players
- Overview of 11+ other applications
- Global market shares by type of component
- Market shares in the consumer field
- Market shares in the automotive field
- For > 28 players: inertial sales & market served
- 240 + slides
- Excel datasheets are included
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
Motion sensing devices are not new. They have been used since the 50s in the aerospace & defense field for navigation functions. MEMS versions of accelerometers and gyroscopes have only been developed more recently, bringing 2 key advantages: cost and size reduction. While not as accurate as the devices used for military applications, MEMS-type accelerometers and gyroscopes are well adapted to be integrated into cars and many consumer electronic products.
MEMS accelerometers have been extensively used since the 90s in light vehicle airbags, as crash sensors. Since then many other devices have benefited from the use of motion sensors. The latest and most striking examples are their use in Nintendo Wii game controllers and in Apple iPhone and iPod devices.
This report deals with the following points:
- How is the consumer electronics changing the MEMS motion sensor industry?
- How the automotive downturn will impact the inertial MEMS suppliers? Will regulation ensure a bright future in this landscape?
- Which applications are the most promising in the very fragmented industrial & medical field?
- Will MEMS IMUs be accurate enough to replace traditional inertial technologies in the aerospace & defense area? Which new applications will it enable to appear?
- What are the biggest opportunities for inertial sensors and combination of inertial sensors for the future?
- Which players are successful? Why Invensense is becoming a leading player in the consumer area? How will ST Microelectronics change the gyroscope competitive landscape? Who are the newcomers? Which companies have difficulties?
- What are the key technical trends and challenges to overcome?
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Table of Contents
- Executive summary
- Introduction, definitions & methodology
- 1. Technology review - MEMS accelerometers & gyroscopes
- MEMS accelerometer overview
- MEMS gyroscope overview
- Magnetometer overview
- 2. 2008-2013 market overview
- Global 2008-2013 market
- 2008-2013 market for MEMS accelerometers
- 2008-2013 market for MEMS gyroscopes
- 3. Consumer electronics applications
- Inertial components for cellphones
- Inertial components for game controllers
- Inertial components for notebooks & netbooks
- Inertial components for game controllers
- Inertial components for PMPs
- Inertial components for DSCs
- Inertial components for camcorders
- Inertial components for PNDs
- Inertial components for other CE applications
- Consumer electronics market - synthesis
- 4. Automotive applications
- Automotive market
- Key changes in the automotive MEMS industry
- Inertial components for airbags
- Inertial components for ESC
- Inertial components for TPMS
- Inertial components for other automotive applications
- Active suspension
- Active front steering
- Electronic Parking Brake
- Integrated GPS
- Safety related testing
- Vibration monitoring
- Other emerging applications
- Automotive market - synthesis
- 5. Industrial & medical applications
- Inertial components for seismic sensors
- Inertial components for antenna systems
- Inertial components for survey equipment
- Inertial components for pacemakers
- Inertial components for other industrial & medical applications
- Medical human motion analysis & sport
- Land transportation systems
- Oil drilling heads
- Bridge monitoring
- Other emerging applications
- Industrial & medical market - synthesis
- 6. Aerospace & defense applications
- Inertial components for UAVs
- Inertial components for aircrafts
- Inertial components for missiles, munitions & rockets
- Inertial components for other aerospace & defense applications
- Soldier equipment
- Other emerging applications
- Aerospace & defense market - synthesis
- 7. MEMS IMU: the next very hot business topic
- IMU in consumer electronics devices
- IMU in the automotive field
- IMU for industrial & medical applications
- IMU in the aerospace & defense area
- MEMS IMU - Synthesis
- 8. Inertial MEMS competitive landscape
- MEMS accelerometer manufacturers: 2008 turnover & market served
- MEMS accelerometer manufacturers: market served per field
- Market shares for MEMS accelerometers
- MEMS gyroscope manufacturers: 2008 turnover & market served
- MEMS gyroscope manufacturers: market served per field
- Market shares for MEMS gyroscopes
- 9. Technical trends & perspectives
- WLP has enabled significant size reduction
- Single packages with 3D integration are preferred in many cases
- From a component to a solution: adding intelligence to the sensor
- Combination of motion sensors (IMUs…) is taking off
- Successful players are often the ones able to decrease manufacturing costs
- Synthesis and future challenges
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