The MEMS market experienced strong growth in 2010, and its operating income increased by 18.3% year-on-year. However, according to the latest research from IHS iSuppli, this is just the beginning of a new round of double-digit growth cycles in the MEMS and sensor markets. The growth trend will continue until 2014. In 2011, the main growth drivers for the MEMS industry will be the consumer electronics and mobile phone markets, which will grow by 25% year-on-year. In the consumer electronics and mobile phone markets, MEMS revenue in 2011 will grow from $1.6 billion in 2010 to $2.1 billion. IHS iSuppli Corporation predicts that by 2014, MEMS revenue from consumer electronics and mobile phones will reach $3.7 billion. Such a huge market demand naturally attracted the attention of the entire industry chain.
Since TSMC pioneered the foundry model, the separation between IC design and manufacturing has become more and more obvious. Now this trend has spread to the original IDM vendors. Over the past five to eight years, more and more IDMs have started to outsource production and give wafer foundries to manufacture wafers. Even big IDM manufacturers like TI have begun to The production is outsourced to foundries. Raj Kumar, senior vice president of Global Foundries’ 200mm business, believes that, especially with proven mature processes of 200mm or less, more and more IDM companies will switch to light wafer or fabless mode. GlobalFoundries has a number of customers. They previously owned one or two fabs under their own company, but gradually began to hand them over to other companies.
In fact, this development trend of MEMS is similar to CMOS, except that MEMS have been slower than CMOS evolution for 25 years. Now, once IDM manufacturers in Europe and the United States have seen MEMS production capacity not reach market demand, they will let go outsourcing production. However, in the early days, it was in the hands of people to produce on their own, and the proportion of outsourced production continued to expand. Such an evolutionary trend was still very obvious.
Because MEMS production process and standard CMOS are still different, so the industry still has doubts: Can the ordinary 200 millimeter production line be able to do the products of MEMS these non-standard craft, whether the large-scale foundry pattern can be extended to MEMS products on? Raj Kumar's answer is: Certainly feasible, and already implemented in practice, even IDM manufacturers are also doing CMOS and MEMS at the same time. To analyze the differences in manufacturing, 80% of the devices used in the production of MEMS were actually CMOS general-purpose devices, including lithography machines and furnaces. These devices were all general-purpose devices. The other 20% are MEMS-specific devices, including wafer bonding equipment and cleaning tool related equipment. Since 80% belong to general-purpose equipment, the relevance of the business is very large, and the production line can be mass-produced with a slight modification.
According to Raji Kumar: “The production of MEMS has a higher technological content. Although there are many companies with 200 mm production lines in the world, there are not many companies that can manufacture MEMS, so we very much hope to expand our market in such a market. Leading edge. "In fact, Chartered Semiconductor, one of the founding members of GlobalFoundries, began manufacturing MEMS 10 years ago and has extensive manufacturing experience in this area." Moreover, in the production of MEMS, GlobalFoundries's legal R&D model or legal design model can really exert its advantages. Whether it is an advanced manufacturing process or a mature process, it will further promote the cooperation in the value chain to make the design and The cycle time of R&D can be greatly shortened, speeding up the production and the time to market.
Of course, for MEMS customers, they also have a set of selected standards. They do not choose these customers casually, mainly three standards: First, cooperation with these MEMS customers must be controlled in terms of capital expenditure. Second, these customer segments must have relatively good results in terms of volume and growth. Third, these customer segments must be ranked in the top two.
According to GlobalFoundries' forecast, 15% of the sales of 200mm production lines will come from MEMS in the next four to five years, and this proportion will continue to increase in the future, mainly because the current MEMS production capacity is gradually increasing from 6 inches. To 8 inches, so the future 200 mm production line MEMS sales and production will continue to climb. Their goal is to become one of the industry’s leading MEMS foundry vendors by 2015.
Since TSMC pioneered the foundry model, the separation between IC design and manufacturing has become more and more obvious. Now this trend has spread to the original IDM vendors. Over the past five to eight years, more and more IDMs have started to outsource production and give wafer foundries to manufacture wafers. Even big IDM manufacturers like TI have begun to The production is outsourced to foundries. Raj Kumar, senior vice president of Global Foundries’ 200mm business, believes that, especially with proven mature processes of 200mm or less, more and more IDM companies will switch to light wafer or fabless mode. GlobalFoundries has a number of customers. They previously owned one or two fabs under their own company, but gradually began to hand them over to other companies.
In fact, this development trend of MEMS is similar to CMOS, except that MEMS have been slower than CMOS evolution for 25 years. Now, once IDM manufacturers in Europe and the United States have seen MEMS production capacity not reach market demand, they will let go outsourcing production. However, in the early days, it was in the hands of people to produce on their own, and the proportion of outsourced production continued to expand. Such an evolutionary trend was still very obvious.
Because MEMS production process and standard CMOS are still different, so the industry still has doubts: Can the ordinary 200 millimeter production line be able to do the products of MEMS these non-standard craft, whether the large-scale foundry pattern can be extended to MEMS products on? Raj Kumar's answer is: Certainly feasible, and already implemented in practice, even IDM manufacturers are also doing CMOS and MEMS at the same time. To analyze the differences in manufacturing, 80% of the devices used in the production of MEMS were actually CMOS general-purpose devices, including lithography machines and furnaces. These devices were all general-purpose devices. The other 20% are MEMS-specific devices, including wafer bonding equipment and cleaning tool related equipment. Since 80% belong to general-purpose equipment, the relevance of the business is very large, and the production line can be mass-produced with a slight modification.
According to Raji Kumar: “The production of MEMS has a higher technological content. Although there are many companies with 200 mm production lines in the world, there are not many companies that can manufacture MEMS, so we very much hope to expand our market in such a market. Leading edge. "In fact, Chartered Semiconductor, one of the founding members of GlobalFoundries, began manufacturing MEMS 10 years ago and has extensive manufacturing experience in this area." Moreover, in the production of MEMS, GlobalFoundries's legal R&D model or legal design model can really exert its advantages. Whether it is an advanced manufacturing process or a mature process, it will further promote the cooperation in the value chain to make the design and The cycle time of R&D can be greatly shortened, speeding up the production and the time to market.
Of course, for MEMS customers, they also have a set of selected standards. They do not choose these customers casually, mainly three standards: First, cooperation with these MEMS customers must be controlled in terms of capital expenditure. Second, these customer segments must have relatively good results in terms of volume and growth. Third, these customer segments must be ranked in the top two.
According to GlobalFoundries' forecast, 15% of the sales of 200mm production lines will come from MEMS in the next four to five years, and this proportion will continue to increase in the future, mainly because the current MEMS production capacity is gradually increasing from 6 inches. To 8 inches, so the future 200 mm production line MEMS sales and production will continue to climb. Their goal is to become one of the industry’s leading MEMS foundry vendors by 2015.
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