SAE International’s Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing website reports that Ecliptek and other companies are now producing oscillators that use microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonators instead of quartz crystals. Last year, more than 10 billion crystal crystals and oscillators were produced, so predicting their demise may be a bit premature.
Even so, the article suggests MEMS resonators will continue to increase their market share because they are smaller than crystals and can be more easily integrated with CMOS circuits.
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