New features and functionality result when consumer products include sensors Randy Frank, Contributing Editor -- Design News, April 28, 2008 Forecast to have an increasing impact on solid-state sensor applications (according to IC Insights' O-S-D Report), consumer electronics add a new twist to sensor manufacturers' and system designers' plans. While consumer electronics products have many different requirements and constraints from other markets, the added use of sensors will benefit not only the products that incorporate them but other applications, as well. Market segments that can benefit include those that can take advantage of the unique aspects of the consumer electronics market such as reduced time-to-market and reduced time-to-volume, as well as the physical attributes of consumer electronics' sensing products,...
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