The popularity of Apple's iOS devices propelled the manufacturer to the top of the consumer microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensors market. The millions of iOS devices in the wild are chock full of 3-axis gyroscopes, accelerometers, microphones, and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) duplexers. In 2010, Apple's purchase of these sensor components rose 116.7% year over year and climbed to a whopping US$195 million.
This figure is only $5 million behind market leader Samsung which purchased $200 million in MEMS sensors for its mobile phones and tablet devices in 2010. These numbers pushed Apple and Samsung above former leader Nintendo which ruled the industry when the Wii and the Nintendo DS we
