ST opens MEMS microphone test laboratory
The laboratory will focus on audio performance at all levels from the system down to microphone and acoustic materials, including smart phones, tablet computers, notebook computers, TVs, and remote controls.
Taiwan has been selected as the best site for the MEMS microphone laboratory because it accounts for 70 percent of the world’s contract IC chip output and a quarter of the global IC design market. Taiwan is home to some of the world’s largest electronic manufacturing services compaies and top tier original design manufacturers and it is the world’s second largest producer of IT products.
The laboratory has been equipped with an APx525 audio analyzer from Audio Precision and it complies with the ISO 3744/3745 industrial acoustic standard and environmental noise regulation, as well as with an Intel set standard on Speech and Voice Recognition.
Global MEMS microphone shipments rose by 37 percent year-on-year from 1.9 billion in 2012 to 2.6 billion units in 2013, according to a recent IHS report. By 2017, the shipments are forecast to reach 5.4 billion units.
"The investment in the new testing facility confirms our commitment to support the increasing demand for MEMS microphone applications and a step forward to further drive the MEMS microphone market growth," said Benedetto Vigna, executive vice president and general manager of ST’s Analog, MEMS & Sensors Group, in a statement.
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