Maxim Asia Pacific Executive Director Zhang Dengyi: Strong push smart meter Liuhe one SOC

Maxim Asia Pacific Executive director Zhang Dengyi said that the smart meter market for smaller, less power consumption of the chip demand is rising, but the use of chips from different suppliers to design, will increase the difficulty of smart meter design, so Maxim launched the integration of six functions of smart meter SOC, To meet the smart meter manufacturers to the integration of higher product demand.

Maxim Asia-Pacific executive director Zhang Dengyi said Maxim will be six in a functional soc, Storm smart meter business opportunities.

In fact, Maxim's existing smart meter SOC has been integrated with analog front-end, instant pulse (real time Clock, RTC), and ammeter processors with current and voltage detection capabilities (Meter Processor). The new generation of Liuhe a smart meter soc--zeus, then further integration to prevent energy theft and network attacks of the security coprocessor, as well as processing power line communication (PLC) and the communication between the meter (MCU), and communication base frequency (communication baseband). In other words, in addition to the PLC front-end has not yet been integrated, the SOC has almost the required functions of smart meters.

Zhang Dengyi revealed that the new Zeus chip with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing process, and its own 8-inch wafer factory production, has been mainland China smart meter manufacturers import. He further pointed out that the Chinese mainland's smart meter demand for the world's largest, and Maxim smart meter chip more than half of the shipments to this point.

On the other hand, in addition to the smart meter chip gradually into multi-functional one of the SOC, Maxim in other applications such as mobile devices, communications, automotive, industrial and medical products, but also towards a high degree of integration into the market, in response to this trend, Maxim also will be the brand name "maxim integrated products"changed to"maxim integrated"to better conform to the direction of product planning.

In addition, Maxim integration of multi-functional product line revenue, the company's share of all analog product revenue has climbed, from 2007 to 18% to 2012 37%, the future is expected to continue to expand. The future Maxim will continue to introduce highly integrated solutions to expand the company's footprint in the analog IC market.