To ask what the hotspots in the 2014 science and technology world are one of them. Although the wearable market in 2014 has not truly take off, major manufacturers are actively layout, in order to account for a while in the fierce wearable market. In the upcoming 2015, wearable market or will usher in greater change, before the new round of wearable equipment chip, let's first understand how many wearable device chip suppliers in the current mainstream .
1, Chip Company: TI
Product line: MCU, Sensor, BT, WiFi, micro-investment DLP, wireless charging, power management
Advantages: product line, rich customer resources, local support is better.
Insufficient: In addition to the application of CC2540 / 41, other products are used in can wear or have not been applied.
Strategy: The Sensor TAG is launched earlier, and the future continues to introduce more products for IOT applications in the future.
Texas Instruments, referred to as TI, is the world's leading semiconductor company, providing innovative digital signal processing (DSP) and analog devices technology for signal processing of real world. In addition to the semiconductor business, there is also provided include sensing and control, educational products and digital light source processing solutions. Ti is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, and manufacturing, design or sales agencies in more than 25 countries.
2, Chip Company: Broadcom
Product Line: BT (SoC), WiFi, GPS, NFC, Smart Bridge, BT and WiFi interconnected, wireless charging, application processor AP
Advantages: product line, rich customer resources, wireless connection market advantage is obvious.
Insufficient: lack sensing products.
Strategy: Positioning Make also wearing TurnKey programmer. Cooperate with companies such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Invensenses, strengthen cooperation between products, such as algorithms and SDX.
Broadcom Corporation is a world-leading wired and wireless communication semiconductor company. Its products implement the family, office, and mobile environment and to deliver voice, data, and multimedia in these environments. Broadcom serves as the manufacturer of computing and network devices, digital entertainment and broadband access products and mobile devices, providing industry-wide, first-class chip systems and software solutions.
3, Chip Company: Silicon Labs
Product line: MCU, Sensor (temperature and humidity, UV)
Advantages: MCU low power consumption, more successful cases.
Insufficient: Except for low power MCU, other products are not available.
Strategy: Supplementary improvement can wear product line, SOC products are about to be launched.
Silicon Labs is established by Nav Sooch, Dave Welland and Jeff Scott in 1996 in Austin, Texas, USA, specializing in the world-class mixed signal devices. Today, the company has become a listing multinational company with approximately $ 500 million in the world's capital approximately $ 500 million, and is in a leading position in various mixed signal products.
4, chip company: ST
Product line: MCU, Sensor
Advantages: The wearing layout is earlier, the MCU customer base is good, the inertial sensor technology is leading, and the environment sensor has also been produced by many international brands.
Insufficient: lack wireless connection products.
Strategies: ST has a full-line MCU and sensor products that provide different programs for different segments. The next product direction, better integration, size, smaller power consumption.
ST, i.e., is the world's largest semiconductor company, with net income of $ 9.73 million in 2011. With the most widely used product portfolio, with diversified technologies, cutting-edge design capabilities, intellectual property portfolios, partner strategies, and efficient manufacturing capabilities, integrated semiconductors through providing innovative semiconductor solutions for customers in different electronic applications. Provide services. STMicroelectronics (ST) was established in 1987 and is a new company after the Italian SGS Microelectronics and Tomson Semiconductor. In May 1998, SGS-Thomson Microelectronics change the company name to STMicroelectronics.
5, Chip Company: FreeScale
Product line: MCU, Sensor, SensorHub (MCU + G)
Advantages: MCU and Sensor products are diverse.
Insufficient: In the late game, the programs / prices lack competition.
Strategy: Although there are already customers shipped, the future is not too clear.
Freescale Semiconductor is the world's leading semiconductor company, located in Austin City, Texas, USA. Focus on embedded processing solutions. Freescale is facing automotive, network, industrial and consumer electronics markets, providing technologies including microprocessors, microcontrollers, sensors, analog integrated circuits and connections. Some of Freescale's main applications and end markets include automotive safety, hybrid, and all-electric vehicles, next-generation wireless infrastructure, intelligent energy management, portable medical devices, consumer electrical appliances, and smart mobile devices. Has a number of design, R & D, manufacturing and sales agencies in the world. Greg Lowe is President and CEO, the company in the New York Stock Exchange stock code (NYSE): FSL, in 2013, US $ 755 million in R & D funds, accounting for 18% of the annual net sales.
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6, Chip Company: Rohm
Product line: MCU, Sensor, BT
Advantages: The product line is rich, providing low-power MCU and BT, infrared / visible light sensors, and subsidiaries Kionix enhance MEMS sensors.
Insufficient: There is less domestic customer resources.
Strategy: Overseas has wearable business cases, domestic still needs to be actively promoted.
Roma (ROHM) Co., Ltd. is one of the world-renowned semiconductor vendors, capital of 86,969 million yen (March 31, 2014, now), the headquarters is located in Beijing, Japan, as small electronic zero in 1958 Part of the manufacturer, in Kyoto, gradually entered semiconductor fields such as transistors, diodes and ICs in 1967 and 1969. In 1971, in 1971, Rom as the first Japanese company entered the US Silicon Valley, opened an IC Design Center in Silicon Valley. With the size of the company at the time, with the hard work of the young, young, dreams and passion, Rom quickly developed. Today, it is accepted by other companies as industry practices.
7, chip company: microchip
Product line: MCU, BT, storage, touch, gesture identification
Advantages: The product line is rich, in the traditional field, such as automotive, industrial, medical and consumer markets, is being promoted by active acquisition of layout.
Insufficient: There is no action in wearable temporarily.
Strategy: Microchip has a microcontroller, analog mixed IC, storage IP, and WiFi, Bluetooth module (outsourcing), etc. in the embedded area, and the layout area of BT products and layout is acquired by acquiring Taiwan Chuangjie.
US Micro-core Technologies, US micro-core semiconductor Microchip Technology Incorporated is the world's leading single-chip microcomputer and analog semiconductor suppliers, providing low-risk product development, lower system costs, and faster for thousands of consumer products worldwide. Product launch time. Since its inception, Microchip has focused on embedding semiconductor product market. In order to occupy the market, all of all of the technologies, design, production, sales and other resources have developed two big fists: PIC8-bit microcontroller (MCU) and high quality serial EEPROM.
8, chip company: atmel
Product line: MCU, touch, IR, RFID, WIFI
Advantages: The product line is rich, once the Internet of Things and wearable applications, the potential opportunity is large.
Insufficient: There is no action in wearable temporarily.
Strategies: Atmel's popularity of Arduino is active in the Chuasian community, it is considered that it is not currently wearable, lacking innovation and fashion elements, there is no big action for the time being.
ATMEL is a global industry leader that is committed to designing and manufacturing various microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed signals, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. With one of the industry's most extensive intellectual property (IP) technologies, Atmel provides comprehensive system solutions for industrial, consumption, security, communication, calculation and automotive markets for electronics industries. Atmel's world-class expertise and rich experience owned by ATMEL enabled its products to develop in existing modules, ensuring minimal development extension and risk. With the industry's most extensive intellectual property (IP) combination, ATMEL provides vendors with complete system solutions for electronic systems.
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