By combining an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer in a single 3-D chip stack, Invensense Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has created the world's first nine-axis inertial navigation unit (INU).
Invensense's single-chip INU is for consumer devices from smartphones to touchscreen-tablets to gaming-controllers to wearable motion-tracking modules. Further Reading
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