Increasing Emergence of Wearable, IoT & Smart Devices are Projected to Boost the Opportunities for the ET Chips over the Next Decade

Rapid changing trends in the market are influencing various industries across the world to deploy IoT and smart devices. IoT & connected devices are put to use in home automation, logistics, manufacturing, oil & gas and other industry verticals. These technologies are being deployed widely in industries that result in reduction of process times and improve work efficiency. Increase in adoption of new technologies such as cloud technologies has been significantly boosting the demand for envelope tracking chips as this has been found to be a solution to improve battery life of smart devices used in the above mentioned applications.

 

Smartphones and tablets have become ubiquitous devices during the past decade since their inception in the market. Almost every utility of the other electronic consumer devices have been merged into smartphones through synergistic integration of semiconductor devices and applications. Automation systems in diverse industry verticals are among the significant end users for smartphones. The current trend for smart devices has inclination towards better functionalities at reduced power consumption and has been achieving by the integration of ET chips in RF power amplifiers. The use of Envelope Tracking technologies across these devices will emerge out as the next generation standard architecture for RF power amplifiers owing to the optimized power and thereby assist in delivering high efficiency across the entire range of 3G and 4G standards. 

The Envelope Tracking features embedded in the low power integrated circuits result in reduced costs, improved efficiency and increased amounts of front-end integration and consolidation. Globally wearable technology is gaining huge demand with full range of new capabilities and has been turning out as the prominent opportunity for the ET chips market growth as consumers as demanding for high efficient systems. Additionally, consumer electronics manufacturers are significantly focusing on the deployment of ET chips in their electronics offerings to developed efficient products and to sustain in competitive environment. 

Surging demand for energy efficient smart devices also opened up a new business streams for manufacturers. As of 2016 there were approximately 275 million wearable devices sold across the world. Wearable devices including fitness activity trackers are enabling the monitoring of health. Wearables are embedded with sensors to monitor physiological data, movement and even body temperature that require high-power processors. Envelope Tracking (ET) chips are incorporated into these smart devices and wearables which reduce power consumption and thereby to enhance efficiency of these devices. 

Deployment of ET technology across smart devices will ensure efficient energy management, lowered heat dissipation and enhanced battery life. Rising penetration of smart devices, fitness monitors, wearable medical devices is creating demand for ET chips due to need of extended battery life which can be address with the integration of ET technology.