Imagine a tiny speaker as big as a microchip. Smaller than a penny and made entirely out of silicon. A speaker! That's the miracle of MEMS.

MEMS or Microelectromechanical Systems are microsystems with both electric and mechanical functions.

Built with the same advanced techniques that make today's integrated circuits, MEMS are everywhere around us.

The tech is miraculous but the industry has long struggled with several significant economic issues. In this video, we are going to look at the big problems with making small mechanical systems.

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