InvenSense to offer tiny gyroscope for camera phone image stabilization

InvenSense (see below) today announced it will offer in the second half of this year “the world’s smallest dual-axis gyroscope, which answers the camera phone industry need to accurately sense natural hand jitter.”

The company says, “As a single-chip silicon device based on MEMS technology, InvenSense’s solution is over 5 times smaller than the smallest competing devices that typically use older piezo-type technology, enabling InvenSense’s gyroscope to fit into any camera phone.”

Volume shipments are expected in the fall of 2006.