Held over three days, the virtual Collaborative Forum will focus on case studies, key speakers, market updates, and content that you have come to expect. Please plan on joining fellow industry peers at the meeting to network and share insights and best practices on the latest business, and technology trends affecting the electronics manufacturing industry. The FOA community stays connected and continues the good dialogue on keeping our fabs productive with the innovative solutions that members continue to drive even during the pandemic.
About Fab Owners Alliance (FOA)
The Fab Owners Alliance, a SEMI technology community, is an international, group of semiconductors & MEMS fab owners and industry suppliers who meet regularly to discuss and act on common manufacturing issues, combining strengths and resources to maintain and increase their global competitiveness. Established in 2004, the FOA consists of 25+ device companies with over 120 semiconductor manufacturing facilities and 65+ suppliers to the industry. With a network of global offices, the FOA connects fab managers and accelerates manufacturing excellence at semiconductor fabs around the world.
The SEMI Fab Owners Alliance (FOA) Q4 Meeting will be held via a virtual platform to help the FOA community stay connected and continue the good dialogue on keeping our fabs productive with the innovative solutions that members continue to drive even during the pandemic.
The event will take advantage of a unique platform to ensure smooth 1:1 networking, live Q&A, and speaker presentations on the latest business, and technology trends affecting the electronics manufacturing industry.
8:00 am - 11:00 am
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Add to Calendar2020-12-01 08:00:002020-12-03 11:00:00Fab Owners Alliance Q4 meeting The SEMI Fab Owners Alliance (FOA) Q4 Meeting will be held via a virtual platform to help the FOA community stay connected and continue the good dialogue on keeping our fabs productive with the innovative solutions that members continue to drive even during the pandemic.
The event will take advantage of a unique platform to ensure smooth 1:1 networking, live Q&A, and speaker presentations on the latest business, and technology trends affecting the electronics manufacturing industry.
Want to hear more about Fab Owners Alliance activities? Register for the interest list.
For more information contact Christie Baker at [email protected]United StatesSEMI.org[email protected]America/Los_Angelespublic
America/Los_Angeles
This SEMI CEO Series Webinar will bring you expert analysis of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election on current geopolitical tensions and the corresponding impact on the global microelectronics supply chain. SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha invites you to join us for an opening presentation from Eurasia Group on the post-election world and US-China trade, focusing on implications for the semiconductor and the bigger technology sector.
A panel discussion with industry CEOs from multiple regions and segments will provide their perspectives to the analysis, addressing the role industry executives can play in easing trade tensions and providing insights on navigating the current geopolitical environment.
United States
4:30 pm
Ajit Manocha
CEO and President
SEMI
Welcome & Opening Remarks
4:35 pm
Joe Pasetti
VP, Global Advocacy & Public Policy
SEMI
SEMI Global Advocacy Priorities
4:40 pm
Gerald Butts
Vice Chairman
Eurasia Group
Macro Overview on the Post-Election World and US-China Trade
Late registrations may result in delayed conference access.
We recommend registering at least 10 minutes before the event to allow enough time for the system to process your registration, in order to access the first session on time.
Cancellations received on or before September 21, 2020 will be fully refunded (less $30 cancellation fee).
The Next Wave of Sensorization: Solving Our Shared Challenges
Industry economic, business updates will be covered from different aspects of the ecosystem, together with forward-looking strategic and technology trends. The opportunities and challenges brought about by key technologies and markets in the areas of medical, sensors for entertainment and augmented reality, virtual reality, environmental, food/agriculture, ultrasonic applications, and wearable devices will be explored. The growth in existing and emerging MEMS and sensors markets, together with the resulting new components, software, and systems needs, will also be discussed.
Take advantage of MSEC 2020 as a Virtual Event. Although we will not meet in person this year, it may be the only time you'll get this amazing content at a fraction of the cost.
SAVE $1,500+ attending the Virtual Event. Registration is only $199 Member / $299 Non-Member.
HEAR industry experts and connect virtually with executives in the comfort of your office or home.
ACCESS the presentations On-Demand 24/7 until November 15, 2020.
MINUS all the travel time and expenses!
Key Session Topics
October 6 » Session 1—Sensors for Entertainment & Augmented Reality
October 7 » Session 2—Emerging Business Strategies
October 8 » Session 3—Business Strategies & Opportunities in 2020
October 13 » Session 4—Emerging Technologies & Manufacturing Trends
October 14 » Session 5—Product Showdown: Ultrasonic Transducers
October 15 » Session 6—Market Trends
Join [LIVE] at 8-10:30am PDT from October 6-8 and 13-15, 2020 to watch all presentations.
Most are available On-Demand. Some are only available during [LIVE] stream (e.g. Disney Keynote).
Indoor air quality is essential for human well-being, and the concentration of various gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) is a good indicator of it. However, today's state of the art CO2 sensor solutions are bulky, limiting their adoption at scale. Thanks to the advancement in technology, the Photo Acoustic Principle (PAS) can be miniaturized and be used to detect gas concentrations at ppm level. A new era of smaller gas sensors will enable the scalability of numerous use-cases that impact our quality of life in indoor spaces, ranging from more efficient ventilation systems to even reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission. To facilitate the adoption of this new technology, complete system solutions are being requested by device manufacturers to quickly deploy the sensors for optimal interoperation of distributed systems.
8:30 am
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8:55 am
Evgeni Gousev, PhD
Sr. Director, Qualcomm AI Research, Qualcomm Technologies
TinyML: Massive Opportunity When Machine Intelligence Meets the Real World of Billions of Sensors
Recent progress in computing hardware, machine learning algorithms and networks and availability of large datasets for model training have created a strong momentum in development and wide deployment of game changing AI applications. Intelligent devices with human-like senses have enabled a variety of new use cases and applications transforming the way we interact with each other and our surroundings. Dedicated hardware becomes tiny and very energy efficient (with mW or less power consumption), algorithms and models - smaller (down to 10s of kB of memory requirements), software – lighter down to deployment on deeply embedded platforms. This enormous technology innovative wave and fast growing tinyML ecosystem create a strong momentum towards new applications and business opportunities. On the other side of the physical world spectrum, MEMS and other sensors are becoming more sophisticated, sense a variety of modalities (vision, sound, environmental, motion/vibrations, etc.) and are being deployed in billions every day. The “collision” of these two powerful driving forces, tinyML and tiny smart sensors, establishes a unique opportunity for edge computing and on-device analytics that will be happening everywhere and anytime. As an end result, this will create a better, healthier and more sustainable environment for all.
This presentation will review the state-of-the-art of tinyML (including hardware, algorithmic and software framework aspects), describe some practical examples of technologies and products pioneered at Qualcomm and else, and discusses near-term trends and opportunities, as well as call to actions.
8:55 am
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9:25 am
Networking with Sponsors
9:25 am
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9:50 am
Eric Hobbs, PhD
CEO, Berkeley Lights
Berkeley Lights: MEMS Technology to Enable a Scalable and Sustainable Cell-Based Future
Berkeley Lights is a leading Digital Cell Biology company focused on enabling and accelerating the rapid development and commercialization of biotherapeutics and other cell-based products. The Berkeley Lights Platform captures deep phenotypic, functional, and genotypic information for thousands of single cells in parallel and can also deliver the live biology customers desire in the form of the best cells. This is a new way to capture and interpret the qualitative language of biology and translate it into single-cell specific digital information, referred to as Digital Cell Biology. We currently focus on enabling the large and rapidly growing markets of antibody therapeutics, cell therapy and synthetic biology with our platform. Our goal is to establish the Berkeley Lights Platform as the standard throughout the cell-based product value chain by increasing the probability of successful product development for our customers.
Since early February when COVID-19 became more prevalent, Berkeley Lights Inc. prioritized helping its customers who are actively involved in finding a cure for COVID-19. With the Berkeley Lights Platform, our customers can execute our workflows at early time points, to provide one of the fastest paths to functionally validated antibodies. Although the spike protein isn’t a particularly hard target to find antibodies for, sometimes being fast and finding the best cells matters.
The time is now to think ahead and invest in solutions, putting the technology and systems in place that are ready to fight the next virus wherever it appears before it becomes a pandemic. We believe that the speed and ability to respond to emerging pathogens can be dramatically improved by deploying our solution globally, to recover antibodies directly from recovering patients from the initial outbreak for rapid development into therapeutics or to accelerate the development of vaccines.
Late registrations may result in delayed conference access.
We recommend registering at least 10 minutes before the event to allow enough time for the system to process your registration, in order to access the first session on time.
Cancellations received on or before September 21, 2020 will be fully refunded (less $30 cancellation fee).
The Next Wave of Sensorization: Solving Our Shared Challenges
Industry economic, business updates will be covered from different aspects of the ecosystem, together with forward-looking strategic and technology trends. The opportunities and challenges brought about by key technologies and markets in the areas of medical, sensors for entertainment and augmented reality, virtual reality, environmental, food/agriculture, ultrasonic applications, and wearable devices will be explored. The growth in existing and emerging MEMS and sensors markets, together with the resulting new components, software, and systems needs, will also be discussed.
Take advantage of MSEC 2020 as a Virtual Event. Although we will not meet in person this year, it may be the only time you'll get this amazing content at a fraction of the cost.
SAVE $1,500+ attending the Virtual Event. Registration is only $199 Member / $299 Non-Member.
HEAR industry experts and connect virtually with executives in the comfort of your office or home.
ACCESS the presentations On-Demand 24/7 until November 15, 2020.
MINUS all the travel time and expenses!
Key Session Topics
October 6 » Session 1—Sensors for Entertainment & Augmented Reality
October 7 » Session 2—Emerging Business Strategies
October 8 » Session 3—Business Strategies & Opportunities in 2020
October 13 » Session 4—Emerging Technologies & Manufacturing Trends
October 14 » Session 5—Product Showdown: Ultrasonic Transducers
October 15 » Session 6—Market Trends
Join [LIVE] at 8-10:30am PDT from October 6-8 and 13-15, 2020 to watch all presentations.
Most are available On-Demand. Some are only available during [LIVE] stream (e.g. Disney Keynote).
Due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, Elevated Body Temperature (EBT) screening is being deployed as a tool and help limit the spread of the disease. To be effective and allow wide-scale use, EBT screening equipment requires high accuracy and precision as well as low system and operation cost. The low cost and high performance of microbolometer cameras make them an obvious choice for EBT systems. This technology is expected to have long term use, even after COVID-19, and will expand into new markets. Opportunities in commercial, residential and personal device application will be discussed, along with the anticipated trends for higher volume, lower cost and increased integration.
8:30 am
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8:55 am
Hamid Rategh, PhD
SVP of Engineering, GenapSys
Highly Accurate and Scalable Electrical Detection-Based Sequencing on CMOS Chips
COVID-19 has brought the limitations of life science to solve problems into a global focus. Cardea is a Tech+Bio Infrastructure company that mends the missing link between biology and technology by creating a direct electronic connection between molecular signals and computers. This is a fundamental paradigm shift in life science as, until now, it’s mostly been based on optical systems that produces one-dimensional data-sets. With the biocompatible nanomaterial graphene, Cardea mass-produces proprietary Biology-gated Transistors, or Cardean Transistors™, that, when combined with versatile hardware and cloud-based computational power (such as machine learning and artificial intelligence), can provide virtually live insight to life and biology. Together with their Innovation Partners, Cardea is building a new generation of “Powered by Cardea” products and applications that will enable humanity to finally gain control over complex problems of health, environmental safety, food security and much more.
The ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, and the SEMI Foundation are collaborating with VLSI System Design to promote VSDOpen 2020, a virtual conference being presented on October 10, 2020.
VLSI System Design provides global online training courses that teach students semiconductor chip design. SEMI recognizes workforce development as one of the most critical needs facing the semiconductor industry. The ESD Alliance and SEMI Foundation are promoting this event as part of SEMI’s broad mission to accelerate workforce development for our industry.
VSDOpen 2020 is a one-day virtual online event featuring three keynote speakers (Jan Rabaey – UC Berkeley, Naveed Sherwani – SiFive and Michael Wishart – eFabless). In addition, the conference will showcase semiconductor IP designed by students, education, research demonstrations, and networking opportunities for designers, researchers, tool developers, and students.
There is no charge to attend VSDOpen 2020. Click the button below to learn more about the event and to register.
Chip Design * IP * Keynotes * Education * Networking
8:00 am - 2:00 pm
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Asia/Kolkata
Virtual Global Smart Manufacturing Conference Event Guide
Globalized supply chains, combined with limited travel and access to experts, has led to rapid acceleration in implementations of smart manufacturing strategies. These systems are focused on improving things such as:
Quality and yield
Efficiency
Security and safety
Optimizing manufacturing cost
This inaugural Global SEMI Smart Manufacturing event brought together experts around the world to share strategies and best practices for professionals improving their manufacturing data capture& analysis and maintaining business continuity, while meeting increasing demands of customers.
The [LIVE] event is over, but the presentations and content remains fresh and applicable via the ON DEMAND platform. To access the information, just register for the event and click on the Agenda for access to the presentations.
Content available until November 23, 2020
Global Smart Manufacturing Conference
Sensing, Connecting & Predicting for Capturing the ROI of Smarter Manufacturing
12:00 am - 12:00 am
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America/Los_Angeles
Late registrations may result in delayed conference access.
We recommend registering at least 10 minutes before the event to allow enough time for the system to process your registration, in order to access the first session on time.
Cancellations received on or before September 21, 2020 will be fully refunded (less $30 cancellation fee).
The Next Wave of Sensorization: Solving Our Shared Challenges
Industry economic, business updates will be covered from different aspects of the ecosystem, together with forward-looking strategic and technology trends. The opportunities and challenges brought about by key technologies and markets in the areas of medical, sensors for entertainment and augmented reality, virtual reality, environmental, food/agriculture, ultrasonic applications, and wearable devices will be explored. The growth in existing and emerging MEMS and sensors markets, together with the resulting new components, software, and systems needs, will also be discussed.
Take advantage of MSEC 2020 as a Virtual Event. Although we will not meet in person this year, it may be the only time you'll get this amazing content at a fraction of the cost.
SAVE $1,500+ attending the Virtual Event. Registration is only $199 Member / $299 Non-Member.
HEAR industry experts and connect virtually with executives in the comfort of your office or home.
ACCESS the presentations On-Demand 24/7 until November 15, 2020.
MINUS all the travel time and expenses!
Key Session Topics
October 6 » Session 1—Sensors for Entertainment & Augmented Reality
October 7 » Session 2—Emerging Business Strategies
October 8 » Session 3—Business Strategies & Opportunities in 2020
October 13 » Session 4—Emerging Technologies & Manufacturing Trends
October 14 » Session 5—Product Showdown: Ultrasonic Transducers
October 15 » Session 6—Market Trends
Join [LIVE] at 8-10:30am PDT from October 6-8 and 13-15, 2020 to watch all presentations.
Most are available On-Demand. Some are only available during [LIVE] stream (e.g. Disney Keynote).
Sensory motion tracking enabled by smart sensors is at the forefront of our fourth industrial age, pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and machine learning further than we could have imagined. Already widely used in animation productions, elite athletes now use motion sensors to enhance their performance and sports enthusiasts to improve their tennis serve or golf swing. In healthcare, motion tracking is helping people to monitor their heart rates, sleep patterns and fitness levels. Motion tracking technology is opening the possibilities for entrepreneurs and innovators to transform their own industries. Our physical, biological and technological worlds are merging like never before, and the potential of sensory motion capture is only restricted by the extent of our imagination.
Individualized digital health monitors benefit wearers with chronic illness or those at risk of acute infectious diseases with rapid onsets. As technology leaders are making vital sign sensors convenient and affordable for mobile and fitness applications, US Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services and other healthcare policy makers, have adopted reimbursement policies to encourage remote patient monitoring practices. The global pandemic has only further accelerated these initiatives.
Even with these economic tailwinds, addressing novel use cases can face many hurdles. Conventional medical diagnoses rely, in part, on a few test results taken under sterile clinical settings. Getting ground truth on subjects in natural settings, finding relevant longitudinal clinical studies, collecting large datasets congruent with actual form factors and workflows, and correlating all that back to clinical diagnoses often require innovative solutions.
This presentation illustrates this using two case studies of individualized, continuous health monitoring solutions. It provides an overview of their use cases and hurdles to provide a discussion on how technical communities could help to accelerate more innovation.
2020 has been a challenging year in many aspects and the consequences of the pandemic are expected to further impact the upcoming years, possibly even decade. Also the MEMS industry is experiencing multiple challenges: Firstly, development costs for new generations of MEMS sensors are increasing and hence wider, diverse markets are required to compensate the growing development expenses and to lower the risks. Secondly, a sole focus on hardware is not sufficient anymore. End-device manufacturers more and more frequently want to differentiate themselves by new features and functionalities which have to be enabled by software to remain cost-efficient. Such software competence was traditionally not available in most hardware-focused companies, creating a need to develop new competencies in our organizations. Finally, customers increasingly demand complete solutions instead of single components. Plug-and-play solutions such as development boards and reference designs created with partners are increasingly expected by our customers and partners. All along, digital tools and services need to be offered to reach a growing, increasingly diverse target group to offer a positive user experience.
In his talk, Jens Fabrowsky, Executive Vice President Automotive Electronics at Bosch, will explore the opportunities and challenges of the MEMS industry in the upcoming ten years and provide an outlook on possible solutions based on specific examples. Jens will also give a call to action for the industry on how it can embrace and contribute to the changes.
10:00 am
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10:30 am
Tim Brosnihan, PhD
Executive Director, SEMI-MSIG
MSIG Report Card, Hall of Fame Award, Emerging Leaders Award & Product Showdown Award
Late registrations may result in delayed conference access.
We recommend registering at least 10 minutes before the event to allow enough time for the system to process your registration, in order to access the first session on time.
Cancellations received on or before September 21, 2020 will be fully refunded (less $30 cancellation fee).
The Next Wave of Sensorization: Solving Our Shared Challenges
Industry economic, business updates will be covered from different aspects of the ecosystem, together with forward-looking strategic and technology trends. The opportunities and challenges brought about by key technologies and markets in the areas of medical, sensors for entertainment and augmented reality, virtual reality, environmental, food/agriculture, ultrasonic applications, and wearable devices will be explored. The growth in existing and emerging MEMS and sensors markets, together with the resulting new components, software, and systems needs, will also be discussed.
Take advantage of MSEC 2020 as a Virtual Event. Although we will not meet in person this year, it may be the only time you'll get this amazing content at a fraction of the cost.
SAVE $1,500+ attending the Virtual Event. Registration is only $199 Member / $299 Non-Member.
HEAR industry experts and connect virtually with executives in the comfort of your office or home.
ACCESS the presentations On-Demand 24/7 until November 15, 2020.
MINUS all the travel time and expenses!
Key Session Topics
October 6 » Session 1—Sensors for Entertainment & Augmented Reality
October 7 » Session 2—Emerging Business Strategies
October 8 » Session 3—Business Strategies & Opportunities in 2020
October 13 » Session 4—Emerging Technologies & Manufacturing Trends
October 14 » Session 5—Product Showdown: Ultrasonic Transducers
October 15 » Session 6—Market Trends
Join [LIVE] at 8-10:30am PDT from October 6-8 and 13-15, 2020 to watch all presentations.
Most are available On-Demand. Some are only available during [LIVE] stream (e.g. Disney Keynote).
Ensuring safe social distancing in the workplace is one piece of the puzzle to enable people to work safely in the age of COVID-19. One means of ensuring safe social distancing is via wearables that continuously measure the distance between personnel. While providers of existing tracking technology based on Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) or RFID trackers are attempting to position their solutions for social distancing, finer accuracy requirements narrow down the options to ultrasonic and ultrawideband (UWB), with ultrasonic delivering a greater accuracy of < 1 cm versus < 10 cm for UWB. Relative to UWB, MEMS ultrasonic time-of-flight (ToF) range sensors consume much less power: a Chirp ToF solution can operate at 1% of the power required by UWB chips, enabling a coin-cell tag to operate for an entire workweek. In addition, electromagnetic range sensing solutions such as UWB have a critical failing for social distancing solutions: UWB cannot natively determine whether people are separated by a barrier, such as a door, window, wall, or partition. Because ultrasound propagates through air, only ultrasonic sensing can natively determine whether people are safely separated in the workplace. In this presentation, I will describe how tracking solution-providers are using Chirp’s MEMS ultrasonic ToF range sensors to create social-distancing solutions that respect an individual’s privacy but also permit an automated contact tracing capability to notify affected individuals and their emergency contact or direct management, providing a cost-effective way to minimize workforce disruption and stop chains of infection from propagating.
8:30 am
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8:55 am
Gioel Molinari
President, Butterfly Network
Semiconductor Based Ultrasound & Democratization of Medical Imaging
In this presentation we will introduce the technology behind Butterfly iQ, the worlds first and only handheld ultrasound system. Enabled by Butterfly's Transducer-on-CMOS, iQ is 10x less expensive than any comparable traditional ultrasound and provides less expert users witha connected and easy-to-use diagnostic solution.
8:55 am
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9:25 am
Topic Discussion Breakouts
9:25 am
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9:50 am
Dan Goehl
Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, Ultrasense Systems
Ultrasound as a Touch User Interface to Bring Surfaces to Life
In this presentation, we will explore how ultrasound and UltraSense’ TouchPoint technology can be used to replace mechanical buttons and why certain markets are ready or need to transform rapidly from mechanical to seamless virtual buttons.
Late registrations may result in delayed conference access.
We recommend registering at least 10 minutes before the event to allow enough time for the system to process your registration, in order to access the first session on time.
Cancellations received on or before September 21, 2020 will be fully refunded (less $30 cancellation fee).
The Next Wave of Sensorization: Solving Our Shared Challenges
Industry economic, business updates will be covered from different aspects of the ecosystem, together with forward-looking strategic and technology trends. The opportunities and challenges brought about by key technologies and markets in the areas of medical, sensors for entertainment and augmented reality, virtual reality, environmental, food/agriculture, ultrasonic applications, and wearable devices will be explored. The growth in existing and emerging MEMS and sensors markets, together with the resulting new components, software, and systems needs, will also be discussed.
Take advantage of MSEC 2020 as a Virtual Event. Although we will not meet in person this year, it may be the only time you'll get this amazing content at a fraction of the cost.
SAVE $1,500+ attending the Virtual Event. Registration is only $199 Member / $299 Non-Member.
HEAR industry experts and connect virtually with executives in the comfort of your office or home.
ACCESS the presentations On-Demand 24/7 until November 15, 2020.
MINUS all the travel time and expenses!
Key Session Topics
October 6 » Session 1—Sensors for Entertainment & Augmented Reality
October 7 » Session 2—Emerging Business Strategies
October 8 » Session 3—Business Strategies & Opportunities in 2020
October 13 » Session 4—Emerging Technologies & Manufacturing Trends
October 14 » Session 5—Product Showdown: Ultrasonic Transducers
October 15 » Session 6—Market Trends
Join [LIVE] at 8-10:30am PDT from October 6-8 and 13-15, 2020 to watch all presentations.
Most are available On-Demand. Some are only available during [LIVE] stream (e.g. Disney Keynote).
Disruptions from technology trends are shaping the mobility of the future. We will discuss our perspective on the role of sensorization (future) mobility, and the supply chain impact for the semiconductor sector.
8:30 am
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8:55 am
Dimitrios Damianos, PhD
Technology and Market Analyst, Imaging & MEMS, Yole Développement
From the smartphones and cars we daily use, to the airplanes we occasionally take, MEMS’ reach is ever-expanding. Wearables are becoming increasingly sensitive, packing more inertial sensors and microphones. The popularity of voice personal assistants (VPA) like Siri, Alexa, etc have pushed audio technologies into new systems that are adopting VPA as a new human-machine interface and MEMS microphones are playing a vital role in this business. And the list keeps getting longer.
Covid-19 is continuously making headlines on its negative effects on markets and the economy, and of course the MEMS market is no different. However, there are some MEMS devices that have gained a lot of attention and experienced a spike in demand, because they help in the combat against the pandemic.
In this presentation, we will address these key elements. Furthermore, we will show the latest market data and MEMS ecosystem, and we will explore emerging market and technology trends, focusing on how the sensor manufacturers can squeeze out more value, overcoming current challenges.
8:55 am
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9:25 am
Networking with Sponsors
9:25 am
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9:50 am
Manuel Tagliavini
Principal Analyst, MEMS & Sensors, Omdia
MEMS & Sensors Market: The Effects of the 2020 Pandemic
Biography
Sensors are found today in a wide range of end applications, spreading from Consumer Electronics & Mobile to Industrial and Automotive, resulting in a sensor market in a good health overall. Even if sensor adoption in Consumer and Mobile applications can quickly skyrocket and then fade, the market is still growing and often reshaping and renewing itself. While Smartphones still represent a huge market, commoditization has left it saturated in value terms and growth is still relevant with the proliferation of multiple image sensors and at the same time it has recently moved to other accessories like smart watches or wireless earbuds from leading suppliers like Apple. Other mainstays like Automotive and Industry on the other hand are subject to longer term trends like Electrification and Robotization of the Car, as well as Smart Manufacturing, Big Data and Condition Monitoring. The presentation looks at the impacts of the major market changes on MEMS and other silicon sensors, focusing on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the sensor shipments and end products forecasts. Which are the sensor families most affected by the lockdowns implemented in several countries worldwide? Are the major effects caused by disruptions in the supply chains or by unexpected changes in the end product demand? Insights and examples of resilience and required market changes will be provided, with predictions of the opportunities for the years ahead.
