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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

#MEMS: "Sand 9 Downsizes Cell Phones"

If you crack the case on any cell phone--smart or dumb--you'll find that the biggest, clunkiest components inside are the crystal oscillator "cans." Now Sand 9 has eliminated the need for those bulky components with a sub-millimeter MEMS substitute, enabling a new era of thinner, lighter, better performing cell phones that drop fewer calls: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


Sand 9's tiny package provides the same the timing signals as quartz but in a sub-millimeter size.


Sand 9's use of a piezo-electric resonator (center) works 100 times better than traditional MEMS.
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