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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)

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China, ~1400

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1995

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Future?

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