Silicon Microphone Market (SIMM) 2007
Yole Development, September 2007, Pages: 194
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.
Who should buy the report?
- Business development manager will plan and tailor the product development activities to fit first product introduction or plan diversification strategies
- Sales managers will have market potential (# Munits/year, ASP) and an overview of joint markets
- Technical directors will find global overview will find the market/technical requirement data to evaluate and scale their new product development projects
- Marketing executives of component and system companies will find key figures for their strategic plans and offer design
- Purchasing departments will find data to evaluate risks or new solutions for their sourcing strategies
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
First signs of MEMS microphone massive introduction
MEMS microphones are already widely used in mobile phones. For example, Knowles SiSonic is in use in more than 20 mobile phone models from handset manufacturers worldwide. The company has announced over 300 million units shipped in mid 2006. This attractiveness for MEMS microphones started in 2003 when Motorola introduced the exceptionally thin RAZR. MEMS microphones enabled these thin profiles thanks to bottom-port microphones. Designers benefited from the very low component height by using them on the front-side of the PCB.
MEMS microphone advantages
The development of the MEMS microphone business is the results of the numerous benefits of this technology vs. the traditional ECM microphones for handset applications. MEMS microphones were the first to be directly solderable by reflow process for example. ECM manufacturers answered within less than three years with ECMs featuring equivalent capability. The additional advantages, such as the immunity to EM and RFI interference beings significant, benefit the handset industry, but it is expected to be much more valuable for other applications such as integration into notebooks and automotive applications.
MEMS market opportunity
The MEMS microphone market is estimated to have reached 117M$ in 2006. The 2005-2006 periods has shown a 90% volume increase. As we forecast a 43% volume CAGR over the 2006 - 2011 period, the MEMS microphone opportunity is clearly one of the fastest growing applications within the MEMS industry. We forecast a slowdown of the market value by 2011 due to very strong price pressure. It highlights a key question not often answered by the companies: is the market large enough to make margin?
- Price pressure is extremely high due to the maturity of the handset industry and the very cheap well established ECM technology
- Competitors start to be numerous
- Considerable investment is required for these complex acoustic devices. With the silicon microphone industry now riding its 3rd wave, this report give inputs predicting how big and how dangerous will be the fourth one!
- AAC,
- Akustica,
- Analog Devices,
- Auxitrol,
- BSE,
- Changzhou Tongda-WK Electronic,
- Dover
- Electronics,
- Draper Laboratory,
- Fujitsu,
- GN
- Resound,
- Hosiden,
- Infineon,
- INN,
- Intensity
- Electronic,
- Tachima Tech Corp,
- Kenwood,
- Knowles acoustics,
- Memscap,
- MEMStech,
- Microflown,
- Motorola,
- NASA,
- NCT,
- Neonode,
- NHK,
- Nokia,
- NXP,
- Omron,
- Panasonic,
- Panasonic
- Mobile Communication,
- Phone-OR,
- QinetiQ,
- Ricoh,
- Ringford Product Ltd,
- Samsung,
- Shenzhen
- Horn Eletroacoustic Technology,
- Siemens,
- Siemens Hearing,
- SonionMEMS,
- SPK
- Electronics,
- Toshiba,
- Transound Electronics,
- VTT
- Electronics,
- Wolfson,
- Yamaha…
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