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Kionix, Inc.
Kionix, Inc., founded in 1993, is a privately-held company located in Ithaca, New York. The Company pioneered high-aspect ratio silicon micromachining based on research originally conducted at Cornell University, and today enjoys a global reputation for MEMS product design, process engineering, and quality manufacturing. Product innovations developed by Kionix include inertial sensors, microfluidic systems, microrelays, and micromirror arrays. The Company offers the industry's broadest family of MEMS inertial sensors including single-, dual-, and tri-axis accelerometers, gyroscopes, and unique combination sensors. Kionix's MEMS products are used in diverse industries such as automotive, consumer electronics, and biotechnology. Kionix is ISO9001:2000 registered.

Kionix sensors are sculpted from single crystal silicon using a proprietary, Deep Reactive Ion Etch (DRIE) process called plasma micromachining. The accelerometer's thin beams are about 1/1000th the thickness of a human hair. Miniature accelerometers, such as Kionix' KXP74, enable applications such as drop detection, gesture recognition, image stabilization and inertial navigation/deductive reckoning.