<story><title>xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15894/xmems-announces-worlds-first-monolithic-mems-speaker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shard</author><text>Just to be clear, this seems to be the first &lt;i&gt;monolithic&lt;/i&gt; MEMS speaker, which I take to mean that the speaker array is fabbed as one die, as opposed to each speaker being a separate piece of silicon. There are already MEMS speakers available before this. Also, for mobile devices, MEMS have been used for a long time now, specifically for the microphone and IMU (inertial measurement unit -- consisting of accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetic sensor).</text></comment>
<story><title>xMEMS announces the first monolithic MEMS speaker</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15894/xmems-announces-worlds-first-monolithic-mems-speaker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the8472</author><text>I find it amazing that litography is considered a &amp;quot;simplification of the manufacturing line&amp;quot; compared to century-old technology that essentially consists of winding a coil through a magnet. Granted, it&amp;#x27;s not a bleeding-edge fab process, but it&amp;#x27;s still a very strange view that considers this a simplification.</text></comment>