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Omnitron Sensors’ MEMS could rid us of the spinning tops on self-driving cars (and lower costs too)
Omnitron Sensors, which makes MEMS sensor chips, has raised $13 million to create inexpensive sensors for self-driving cars.
Streamlining the production of MEMS sensors — which have been limited by expensive, laborious manufacturing methods for decades — Omnitron’s fabrication intellectual property is the critical enabler for optical cross-connects (OXCs) in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, optical subsystems in long-range LiDAR for autonomous navigation, see-through displays in extended reality (XR) headsets and eyewear, and precision laser spectrometry for methane gas detection. And because of that interest, we were able to secure three letters of intent, two in the automotive industry, one in the energy sector, and valued at hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. Now the company is moving from building chips on a few wafers of silicon a week to thousands a month so it can prove the reliability for the automotive customers, Aguilar said.
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