With competition increasing from a variety of players, MEMS foundries need to solidify their business model, clarify their positioning and streamline their offering to insure long-term success.
Yole Développement has released a new study dedicated to the MEMS foundry business: MEMS Foundry 2009. Supported by Yole’s MEMS expertise, this report presents key market and technologies trends for MEMS foundries.
The report will help the MEMS companies to un‐derstand characteristics of foundries: they will be able to identify their future production part‐ners easily, understand the key MEMS foundry dynamics today and gain insights into the evo‐lution of the MEMS Foundry business.
MEMS foundries new key partners of MEMS Industry
MEMS foundries are the new key players of the MEMS industry. Major open MEMS foundries are now profitable and most are moving to upgrade to 8-inch production lines.
Top 20 MEMS Foundries - 2008/2007 (Estimations)
Source: Yole DéveloppementGrowth of consumer applications and other high potential market opportunities have attracted new entrants coming from mainstream semiconductor, leveraging their high volume production lines combining CMOS technology and MEMS.
A heated competition will start between es‐tablished MEMS foundries and these new players experienced in volume production. The MEMS Foundry market is still very fragmented.
The largest markets for MEMS foundries are inkjet printheads using mainly “exclusive” foundry services, but open foundries are developing innovative platforms addressing new applications like RF-MEMS or microphones and de‐veloping different approaches of product platform from fixed process to Multi-project Wafer (MPW).
MEMS foundries business: +22 percent in 2008. What’s next?
With over 50 companies identified worldwide, MEMS foundries are the new key partners of the MEMS industry.
“While the foundry business experienced a booming 22% growth to reach $480 million in 2008, MEMS foundries do not expect more than single digit revenue increase for 2009 with low visibility on bookings”, says Jérôme Mouly, Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement.
MEMS market share captured by foundries is increasing for most products because the struc‐ture of the MEMS industry is stabilizing with emerging MEMS companies choosing “fabless” or “fablite” business models and sharing the production risks of new products with the MEMS foundries.
• “MEMS Foundries 2009” focuses on the segmentation of this part of the MEMS val‐ue chain, highlighting MEMS foundry markets and trends.
• “MEMS Foundries 2009” is the only report highlighting how foundries will gain mar‐ket share in the MEMS market, and the key criteria to understand why MEMS com‐panies are more interested in Foundries today.
• Acquiring “MEMS Foundries 2009”, will allow you to quickly identify major MEMS foundries and the most dedicated foundry partner for your activity.
MEMS Foundries 2009 report spotlights an original business model of the MEMS industry, highlighting major players and ranking 2008 sales with a comparison to 2007.
MEMS foundries 2009 report gives information on how typical foundry rev‐enues are generated, from development services to wafer processing, the latest trends and information on MEMS foundry activities.
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