Shortnews: New MEMS reports from Yole Developpement

France based Yole Developpement has recently released the following new MEMS market reports:

• MEMS Switch and Varicap Market 2008
• MEMS for Cell Phones 2008
• MIS 08 Status of the MEMS industry
• IMU MArket 2007-2012
• WMEM 08- World MEMS Equipment & Materials Market
  

Analog Devices presents high peformance MEMS microphone for Consomer Electronics

Analog Devices has presented a new MEMS microphone based on their iMEMS process which was previously mostly used for accelerometers.
The new microphone (ADMP412 PDM) has digital output, extremely good signal-to-noise 61-dB A-weighted, is capable of high-fidelity audio-video playback, conference calling, voice recognition, VoIP compliant and is aimed specifically at the consumer product market.