MEMS testing: transition from millions to billions to trillions

Sensors, specifically MEMSbased, have created multiple market tornados over the past 40 years. Most recently there has been a market explosion driven by the widespread adoption of MEMS sensing devices in mobile consumer applications. In the past 5 years the worldwide market has grown from roughly 10 million to 3 billion sensors in mobile devices, representing a growth rate of over 200%/ year. The total market is expected to grow to at least 16 billion sensors in the next 5 years, and a trillion sensors in 10 years.