The ‘beating heart’ of sensor tech

Employees work on the magnetic sensor chip production line at Anhui North Microelectronics Research Institute’s facility in Bengbu. — China Daily

IN an age of intelligent machines, sensors have become the invisible organs of modern technology, giving devices the power to see, hear, feel and respond.

And increasingly, these sensors are being made not in Silicon Valley, but in Bengbu, a once-sleepy industrial city in East China’s Anhui province.