I began reading on MEMS industry, and how one enters it. It seem there are close to no "feeder industries" into it, and most opportunities on working on new MEMS developments come from university->industry transition.
MEMS made crazy advances over the last decade, and I still can't fathom how little about it reaches the wider engineering public.
For example: https://www.ricoh.com/release/2019/0219_1 it may well be we will see a real atomic clock on a die soon. Implications are hard to disregard. A good enough atomic clock automatically doubles as an extremely precise accelerometer, allowing for inertial navigation as precise as GPS.
MEMS made crazy advances over the last decade, and I still can't fathom how little about it reaches the wider engineering public.
For example: https://www.ricoh.com/release/2019/0219_1 it may well be we will see a real atomic clock on a die soon. Implications are hard to disregard. A good enough atomic clock automatically doubles as an extremely precise accelerometer, allowing for inertial navigation as precise as GPS.