Global sensor market keeps growing fast

Absrtact: Using the current smartphone, when people turn it 90 degrees, will find that the mobile phone display page will also follow the flip over, which is a sensor role. Sensors, as the name suggests, are physical, chemical, and biological signals that are externally imported.

Using the current smartphone, when people turn it 90 degrees, they will find that the mobile phone display page will also follow the flip over, which is the role of a sensor.

Sensors, as the name implies, is the external input of physical, chemical and biological signals into electrical signals, can achieve with the external environment "interaction" function. A brokerage researcher said that with the rich function of intelligent products, the number of sensors needed more, the product will be more advanced to achieve a variety of functions. For the upcoming Apple Watch, carrying sensors is essential.

Widely used in various fields

At this stage, most smartphones are equipped with a variety of MEMS sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, gravity sensors and so on. such as gravity sensor, is to feel the mobile phone in the change of position center of gravity changes, so that the mobile phone cursor change position to achieve the choice of function.

It is worth mentioning that the current sensors are widely used in various fields, in addition to consumer electronics, but also widely used in automobiles, medical electronics and other fields, especially smartphones and tablet computers.

In fact, as mobile phones become more sophisticated and complex, the number of applications for MEMS in smart Electronics will increase. Huatai Securities analysts said in the study, the current smartphone has adopted up to 12 MEMS chips, is expected in the near future, each smartphone will be the use of MEMS to 20.

The number of sensors used in the product is not small, according to Apple's watch. There are insiders on the reporter simple analysis of the function of Apple Watch, gyroscope may exist, in the flip wrist to watch the table, you can automatically perceive, wake up screen. There may also be a heart rate sensor for tracking heart rate conditions.

Global markets maintain rapid growth

"China Sensor Industry Development White Paper (2014)" shows that in recent years, the global sensor market has maintained rapid growth in 2012, the global sensor market size has reached 95.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, about 105.5 billion U.S. dollars. In the future, as the economic environment continues to improve, the market demand for sensors will continue to increase.

In recent years, China's sensor growth rate has been more than 20%. A brokerage analyst, who declined to be named, said that the current domestic sensor manufacturers, fierce competition, mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River delta region, especially in Jiangsu and other places. Most domestic manufacturers buy chips themselves, low competitiveness.

In the second half of last year, several a-share companies have to enter the Sensor field.

May 2014, the Shield environment announced with the MEMS sensor giant company Microluxtechnology,inc. Co-invest set up Shield Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. The joint venture mainly deals with the design, development, manufacture and sale of MEMS sensors in the field of automotive, refrigeration and air conditioning, medical field, industrial control, energy, aerospace and other fields. The same year at the end of August, Offikang announced a fixed increase of 4 billion yuan, and one of the investment projects is the sensor and application integration System research and Development Center project.

September 24, 2014, Shuo Bader said, the company intends to use its own capital of 50 million yuan, investment in a new wholly-owned subsidiary of Kyle, Huizhou, the main purpose of the investment is to expand the production scale of high pixel image sensor modules, new investment in the next generation of biometric sensor module research and development, design and manufacture ( Including fingerprint identification sensor, iris identification sensor, etc., as well as new investment sensor module and application integration System research and Development center, build a large-scale competitive advantage to enhance the company's comprehensive competitiveness.

September 30, with the state core announced, to be a strategic investor through a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong, the same core subscribe to the shares of Huahong Semiconductor. and Huahong Semiconductor is the world's leading pure wafer foundry, focusing on the development and manufacture of professional applications of 200mm (or 8-inch) wafer semiconductor. Products include rfcoms, analog and mixed signals, CMOS image sensors, pmic and MEMS processing technology.