Apple Helps Propel MEMS Microphone Market Grows by Nearly Fivefold from Year 2009 to Year 2012
Apple Inc.’s tremendously influential iPhone helped spark the market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones to new heights, causing MEMS microphone shipments to nearly quintuple in just three short years. Shipments of MEMS microphones reached an estimated 2.06 billion units in 2012, up by a factor of 4.8 from 432.9 million units in 2009 according to an IHS iSuppli MEMS Market Brief from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).
