Today, most of the contract manufacturers are full of work, both for development projects and production: we expect that the MEMS foundry and contract manufacturer markets will reach total revenue of more than 500 M$ in 2010, (a market multiplied by 3 in a 6 years period).
This growth is due to 3 main reasons: * Continuous increase of the activities of existing companies like DALSA Semiconductors, IMT, Silex, Tronic’s, SMI, Micralyne …* Increase of the Taiwanese MEMS foundry activities, mainly linked to Taiwanese markets * New players are entering the market, targeting high volume applications like silicon microphone, inertial sensors, ink jet head…