Low-power MCUs have huge business opportunities

After the topic of green energy is no longer merely a topic of high music, the products of low-power MCUs have begun to look different from before—no need to sacrifice their cost and effectiveness in order to achieve low performance, and they are gradually favored by brand owners. For example, 20% of MCU products from Microchip's Microcontroller product line are low-power, and low-power products from Hong Kong-based STMicroelectronics (ST) account for 25% of MCU products. Expand to 30% within two years.

In fact, business opportunities and technology are in fact a mutual benefit symbiotic relationship. Environmental protection and energy conservation are common trends in the world. Long-term accused of being a beast of greedy resources, the science and technology industry must be good at corporate responsibility. All governments have resorted to strong policies, which are the intention to replace electronic products that are not friendly to the environment. According to the National Energy Agency (D.O.G.), more than one-third of the U.S. electricity generation is used in home appliances. To reduce energy consumption, start with home appliances.

The U.S. federal government made 300 million U.S. dollars in 2009 to provide consumers with subsidy allowances for up to 200 U.S. dollars for energy-saving appliances. The Chinese government, in addition to continuing to implement home appliances to the countryside to stimulate consumption, also adopted new home energy consumption standards and tender restrictions. Improve the threshold for entry into the Chinese home appliance market; as a result, many home appliances that were not in the target category have invested in low-power MCUs in order to meet the performance and performance requirements at the same time.

In the case of a large-scale home appliance, traditionally a one-way AC motor can be used to perform an electronically-driven washing machine by relying on voltage/count-speed calculations. However, the requirements for washing machines are increasing day by day - water saving, power saving, and no noise, beyond the capabilities of traditional one-way AC motors. At this time, only low-power MCUs can be called to drive three-phase AC motors to be saved. From the beginning of its own energy conservation, each device in the house in the future will go toward low-power, such as smoke detectors, various types of remote controls, and even smart meters; the highest point of the business opportunity is to create a smart energy network that is interconnected. In response to the use of home appliances to give different low-power adjustments.

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