MEMS

MEMS Technology, remains positive with the company's business outlook for the year, despite the current economic crisis, says CEO K. Sooriakumar. He expects the introduction of its silicon microphone products for cellular phones to push the microphone business revenue's contribution to 60-70% this year, from 30-40% currently. "Currently, there is a migration of the traditional electro-component microphones (ECM) to silicon microphones by cellular phone makers due to lower manufacturing cost and time, better performance as well as their smaller size," he said after Memstech's AGM yesterday. Even if the growth of the mobile phone market is slow, due to this conversion from ECM to silicon microphones, MEMS is still able to continue to get orders. To date, three major world's mobile phone manufacturers have qualified Memstech's silicon microphones and placed orders for its products. The company started shipping the silicon microphones to these manufacturers since a year ago. (BT)