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COMMENT
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Editorial
Editor-in-Chief
David Ridsdale
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Technical Editor
Klaus Gerle
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MEMS comes of age
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number of recent analyst reports suggest the MEMS sector of
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emerging technologies is growing faster than expected and is being
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driven by consumer applications rather than the traditional printer
and automobile market. The total market reached an estimated 6 billion dollars in
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2006 and is expected to rise at least at 14% CAGR.
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This puts MEMS in a similar situation of the heady days of semiconductor
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are promising for the MEMS sector with other emerging technologies also begin to
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show traction in the market place.
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Jan Smoothy
A key differentiation between semiconductor and MEMS is the driving force behind the
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growth. The major growth period for semiconductors was when one killer application,
like the PC or mobile phone, suddenly had massive uptake by consumers leading to
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