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It is not every day I get an opportunity to audition a completely new type of speaker. So, it was with a fair amount of excitement that I attended a press event in New York City hosted by Silicon Valley startup xMEMS Labs. On display were several new piezoelectric Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) speakers, each of which is essentially a semiconductor — a chip-based driver 1/25th of an inch in height and small enough in width and depth to fit on the head of a pencil’s erasure.