China's first three-axis gyroscope SoC

The gyroscope sensor was developed independently by QST, which adopted Hua Hong Semiconductor's MEMS manufacturing technology. Through innovations on product design and manufacturing processes, for the first time, both parties successfully integrated the MEMS gyroscope ASIC devices on a single chip, which has simplified the interconnects inside the package, enhancing the package reliability and improving the product performance and manufacturing yield.

"Gyroscope is the most technologically demanding product among the motion sensors, and its application in smart devices is dominated by a few global brands," said Dr. Joseph Xie, President, QST, "QMG6982 developed by our company represents an innovative breakthrough among the local MEMS designers, which caters to the customers' increasing demands for low-cost and high-performance MEMS sensors. Featuring compactness, low power, high precision and interference immunity, it once again demonstrates QST's R&D competence. Remarkably, as a high-tech company focusing on R&D and production of MEMS sensors, we have introduced five sensor products together with Hua Hong Semiconductor over the past three years."

"With proven R&D capabilities in driving innovation, Hua Hong Semiconductor has successfully achieved full compatibility between MEMS and standard CMOS from process development to mass production on 200mm manufacturing platform, by delivering wafer processing solutions for monolithic CMOS-MEMS devices, which help customers improve performance and competitiveness of their sensor products," said Dr. Fu Cheng, Executive Vice President, Hua Hong Semiconductor, "Building on its industry-leading embedded flash memory, RF and ultralow leakage CMOS technologies, Hua Hong Semiconductor delivers embedded flash IPs featuring low power and compactness for different sensor applications, which help to reduce the system's power consumption and chip cost. Besides, these available platforms can offer more extensive applications and flexibility in MEMS designs."

"According to a recent study of IHS, the global MEMS sensor market will grow from $9.3bn in 2014 to $13bn in 2019, at a CAGR of 7%. MEMS sensor represents a new growth opportunity for Hua Hong Semiconductor. We are working closer with QST to develop MEMS sensors for the emerging mobile market and expand our capabilities into other MEMS sensor opportunities for the IoT market," added Dr. Fu Cheng.