Analog power and specialty technologies

Summary form only given. When the first iPhone introduced to the world in 2007, it stimulated the demand of personal electronic devices to a different level. With simple human-machine interfaces, modern smartphone has enabled a lot more persons to use electronic devices. As computing paradigms migrate from desktop to mobile, technology requirements differ. Performance driven consideration was overridden by power. Going forward, driven by immersion experience needs of IoT, sensing the environment and responding correctly under extreme power budget become the purpose of technology. Specialty technology, such as eNVM, RF, MEMS/sen sor and power management etc., become more important than ever. We will discuss about UMC strategy on specialty technologies in this paper.