ams Acquires Advanced CMOS Sensor Business from NXP
July 28 2015 - 1:41AM
Business Wire
New monolithic and integrated CMOS environmental sensors
drive significant opportunities in smart phones, wearables, smart
homes, industrial, medical and automotive markets
ams AG (SIX:AMS), a leading provider of high performance sensors
and analog ICs, announced today that the company has acquired the
CMOS
Sensor Business from NXP Semiconductors. The acquisition expands
ams’ environmental sensor portfolio with advanced monolithic and
integrated CMOS sensors that measure several environmental
variables such as relative humidity, pressure and temperature in
one sensor device.
“Environmental sensors can replicate and enhance human responses
by monitoring and measuring smell, pressure and temperature. By
capturing this information electronically, data-driven decisions
can be made automatically and efficiently,” said Thomas Riener,
Executive Vice President, Marketing & Strategy at ams. “The
acquisition of NXP’s CMOS Sensor Business expands our existing
environmental sensor technologies and is a synergistic addition to
our chemical sensor capabilities and smart lighting solutions. This
portfolio makes ams the one-stop shop for environmental
sensors.”
The newly enlarged line of ams environmental sensors is
anticipated to drive high-value growth opportunities for smart
phones, wearables, and other mobile devices as well as for smart
buildings and the industrial, medical and automotive markets. The
cost-effective smart sensor systems will combine intelligence,
wired and wireless interfaces, and advanced power management to
increase human comfort, reduce energy costs, and provide additional
safety and security. Particular attributes of the new sensors
include the following:
- Minimum size, leveraging on chip-scale
package (CSP) technology
- Greatly reduced package complexity and
cost
- Very low power consumption
- Best-in-class analog front ends
- Outstanding performance and
accuracy
- Easy integration with other
sensors
Specially developed sensor fusion software allows information
from multiple sources within the environment to be combined and
creates context awareness for delivering information to users.
Sample applications include the following:
- Mobile devices/Wearables: Sensors are
expected to allow for the detection of air quality or breath
alcohol levels, and can provide weather alarms. Sensors will also
be able to offer humidity compensation for gas sensing and allow
for comfort awareness and indoor navigation.
- In Home and Building Automation,
distributed Relative Humidity (RH) and temperature sensors in
combination with Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) sensors will be
able to accurately monitor the indoor climate and air quality,
which will contribute to a more efficient use of the air
conditioning and ventilation systems. VOC and RH sensors can be
used in the distribution chain of perishable goods such as food to
monitor the quality during transportation and storage. RH and T
sensors can also assist in improving the drying process of ink-jet
printers by sensing humidity levels in the air and within the
paper, and can assist in improving print quality for toner-based
printers by sensing RH in the toner.
- Automotive: Sensors will be able to
test interior humidity and air quality, then instruct the vehicle
to make changes in airflow such as defogging the windshield or
turning on the air conditioning.
The new additions to the environmental sensor product portfolio
are available for customer sampling now. Temperature and relative
humidity sensor solutions will be in mass production early in
2016.
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