It is important to recognize that the IoT goes beyond the “Things”. The associated market opportunity extends to the Networks to carry the data traffic, and the Data Centers to harness the data, and run analytics to transform the raw data to faster decision-making insights and outcomes.

The IoT applications and use-cases that span Things, Networks, and Data Centers drive new requirements for semiconductors including ultra low power, ultra low leakage, smaller and denser packaging, and cost effectiveness. These requirements are at the heart of the IoT platform technologies developed by semiconductor Foundries that are power efficient, optimized, and cost-effective for IoT nodes. This “under-the-hood” differentiation at the semiconductor level enables the enhanced end-user and application experiences for IoT.

Based on the market and customer trends, the prevalent process technologies for the Low and Mid-end IoT nodes are 55nm and 40nm. From 2017-18 onwards, we’ll see the shift to leading edge 28nm, 22nm, and 14nm and beyond, and a growth in edge-node computing.

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