Taiwanese IC designers have many challenges in MEMS development

Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) components have grown significantly in smartphones and consumer electronics products, and have attracted Taiwanese IC designers to rush to attack the market. However, MEMS design differs from general semiconductors in that it is unable to use existing production equipment and the MEMS market seems to be hot, but the scale is hard to support. Manufacturers are betting on huge resources to purchase new equipment. Therefore, manufacturers are struggling, and Taiwan manufacturers have not yet Show achievements.

Wu Mingqing, manager of Lishun's precision development and design department, said that Taiwanese companies are focusing on the idea of ​​obtaining certain revenue within a short period of time, forming a major conflict in the development of the MEMS market.

At present, Lishun Precision, which has started shipping a small amount of MEMS components since March 2010, is one of the few Taiwanese manufacturers that has actually launched a three-axis accelerometer. Wu Mingqing, the company’s development and design department manager, stated that 10 years ago, Taiwan’s IC design manufacturers announced that Entering into the research and development of MEMS components, as of now, only a few companies such as Lishun Precision have introduced products and explored the reasons for the slow pace of Taiwanese manufacturers, related to the ecology of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, and whether manufacturers are willing to invest huge sums to establish new MEMS production lines.

Taiwan’s traditional semiconductor industry has a very narrow division of labor, design and manufacturing, and packaging and cutting are quite clear. It also allows manufacturers to specialize only in certain areas. Wu Mingqing pointed out that because manufacturers are limited to the expertise of a single field in the entire semiconductor industry, There are difficulties in other areas. In addition, at present, MEMS is not the same as IC products have a set of standard specifications to follow, and there is no corresponding device can support the production of MEMS, so it is not IC design industry to complete the MEMS design, submitted to the IC manufacturer, you can successfully produce . In addition, the verification of MEMS is different from that of general ICs, and its importance is also higher than that of ICs.

With equipment and verification not establishing a complete ecosystem, the market size of MEMS has also become another important reason why manufacturers can successfully enter the MEMS market. Wu Mingqing explained that although MEMS is driven by the two major applications of consumer electronics and smart phones, it is quite bright, but because Taiwanese manufacturers are still unable to cut into the supply chain of well-known brands, the monthly shipment of MEMS components may not reach a million. The scale cannot be balanced with the resources required to establish a MEMS production line. For example, if a monthly shipment of 20 million, an average size of 1.5 mm (mm) × 1.5 mm calculation, an 8-inch wafer, can produce about 20,000 MEMS components, so only a thousand Wafers can meet market demand, but the production capacity of one thousand wafers is difficult for fabs to profit, even to balance profits and losses, which also led to Taiwan's IC design industry can not drive fabs to invest huge amounts of money for MEMS components The new design platform was deployed so that we could only work hard to think about how to integrate existing IC manufacturing equipment to successfully produce MEMS components. However, MEMS and traditional IC manufacturing are very different, and it has caused Taiwanese manufacturers to delay the MEMS market. Have a place.

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