Product category: Electronics Manufacturing Services
News Release from: Applied Microengineering | Subject: MEMS devices
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 February 2004
Time to rethink MEMS device manufacture
The design-house/foundry model for the fabrication of MEMS devices that his company has been pursuing for a number of years simply does not work, says AML's Rob Santilli.
Applied Microengineering (AML) has concluded that the design-house/foundry model for the fabrication of MEMS devices that it has been pursuing for a number of years does not work Basically the foundries' production processes are too inflexible for the fabrication of the wide variety of MEMS devices being proposed
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Mar 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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In retrospect it's understandable - it is like asking the Mini car production line in Oxford to make coffee cups.