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Enabling Technology for Wearable Devices
Kite Huang
Technical Marketing, UMC
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Outline
• Industry Trend Towards IoT/Wearable
• Technical Challenges for Wearable
• Technical Solutions from Foundry Perspective
• Summary
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IoT Leads the Next Growth Era
IoT
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Source: BI Intelligence, Gartner, IDC, UMC
Feature Phone: (-21%)
PC: (-8%)
LCD TV: (-5%)
Smartphone: 6%
YoY Growth Rate in 2015 Tablet: 9%
IoT
Tablets
Smartphones
PC (Desktop & Notebook)
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Data
cloud smart glass
smart mobiles
wearable – watch, bio-info
location
ID
WPAN, WLAN, 3G/4G etc.
Power Management
Games
Entertainment
Appliances
Finance
Security
Smart Home/ Building/Retail etc.
safety
Infotainment
Auto
IoT Enabled by Ubiquitous Intelligence
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Diving Into IoT Requirements
Smart Transport
Smart Retail/ Logistic
LP MCU LP MCU LP MCU LP MCU LP MCU LP MCU
: eNVM
HP AP HP AP HP AP
: Cutting Edge Logic/MM
BT/BLE
Zigbee PLC WiFi
BT/BLE
Zigbee PLC WiFi
BT/BLE
Zigbee BT/BLE
2G/3G/4G
RFID NFC GPS
RFID NFC GPS
: MMRF
Sensor
Sensor
Sensor
Sensor
Sensor Sensor
: CIS, MEMS
Display
Display Display Display
Display Display
: eHV
Charger PMIC
PMIC Charger PMIC Energy Harvesting
Charger PMIC
Charger PMIC
PMIC
: BCD
IOT
Wearable Smart Grid Smart Home/
Building Remote
Healthcare
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Foreseeable Facts of IoT
• 5 quintillion (1018) bytes of data generated each day by 2020.
• 50B connected devices by 2020, 30% CAGR from 2013 to 2020
• WPAN devices getting the highest CAGR (>65%)
• WPAN device shipment ratio >55% in 2020
200 KWPM (12”) in 2020
• Diversified markets spanning over multiple process platforms
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Band/Watch Devices: ~80% Market(2018)
Source: IEK
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But, When We Looked Into the Solutions…
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Using Whatever Available - Watch type
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Using Whatever Available - Band type
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What Is a Possible Foundry Solution for Wearable?
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Diversified IoT Segments Need a Full Spectrum of Specialty Technologies
MMRF
MEMS
eHV CIS
BCD
eNVM
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What are the Particular Specialty Technology Requirements for Wearable?
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Key Technologies For Wearable
Processing
MCU/eNVM
Sensing
Sensor/
MEMS
Low Power/
Energy Harvest
Technology Communication
Connectivity/
RF
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If You Build It, They Will Come (Ray Kinsella in “Field of Dreams”, 1989)
Italy, 1352
China, ~1400
~1980
1995
>2013
Future?
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