走向可穿戴技术

建议“星际迷航时尚”的风格与人们走来走去，戴着放大的手表，眼镜，戒指和手镯，这似乎有些牵强。
但话说再说，15年前，人们会用智能手机发送电子邮件，网上冲浪，玩游戏，观看视频，管理日历，听音乐和驾驶方向，这似乎是未来主义。
随着这一趋势的出现，可穿戴设备正在引发企业的巨大兴趣，因为它们有可能推动消费电子产品的下一波增长。
首先，它是智能手机，然后是媒体平板电脑，它们是推动行业增长的最新消费电子产品创新，每年的总销售额达到约13亿台。
现在看来，可穿戴革命的出现速度可能超过之前的移动革命。
由于塑造了当今智能手机的技术革命，传感器和芯片组比以往更小，更便宜，使公司更容易将复杂的硬件整合到可穿戴设备中。
如果可穿戴设备能够通过简化和/或改善生活质量来有效地解决消费者的兴趣，那么可穿戴设备每年最终可以销售数亿个单元。
广泛的消费者采用可穿戴设备取决于产品设计师有效解决消费者利益的能力;
当今市场上的一些可穿戴设备包含的功能不能满足关键的消费者兴趣，并且是搜索客户的有效“技术演示”。
虽然目前或预想的一些可穿戴设备将有利基市场，但为了超越早期采用者，可穿戴设备将需要沿着功能，简单和便利三个方面进行创新。
智能手表，健身带，运动相机和移动医疗设备等产品最能满足消费者的需求，并有望实现最高的增长率。
但可穿戴设备能否成为我们心爱的智能手机的消亡？
在可预见的未来，可穿戴设备通常作为智能手机的配套设备存在。
今天有两个主要的智能手机生态系统，Apple和Google。
在智能手机领导者中，除了中国本土智能手机制造商等挑战者之外，苹果和三星最有能力将新的可穿戴设备与智能手机有效地连接在一起。
这将为他们提供独特的市场优势。
新的业务合作也增加了机会;
苹果，谷歌和三星等公司可以寻求与现有医疗设备制造商建立合作伙伴关系，以实现移动医疗保健设备，或与智能手机和健身带等设备合作时尚奢侈品牌。
作为节能创新的广泛供应商，安森美半导体在解决可穿戴设备的关键半导体需求方面具有独特的优势，这些设备涵盖电源和电池管理，通信，控制，传感器，复杂设备集成和微型封装。
可穿戴设备是公司的重要增长市场，我们正积极与客户合作开发优化的解决方案，以满足他们的设计要求。
今天，您可以在各种智能手表，健身带和运动相机以及其他类型的可穿戴设备中找到我们的产品。
此外，安森美半导体还是医疗设备市场的领先半导体供应商，从用于助听器的复杂SoC到用于植入式数字成像和医疗诊断设备的AS和ASSP。
这使该公司独特地定位了新兴的移动健康设备。



以下为原文

It may seem far-fetched to suggest that “Star Trek fashion” will be in style with people walking around wearing amped-up watches, eyeglasses, rings and bracelets. But then again, 15 years ago it seemed futuristic to think that people would use their smartphone to email, surf the web, play games, watch videos, manage calendars, listen to music and navigate driving directions.
As this trend emerges, wearable devices are generating substantial interest from businesses based on their potential to drive the next wave of growth in consumer electronics. First, it was smart phones, then media tablets that were the most recent consumer electronics innovation to propel industry growth, reaching combined sales of approximately 1.3 billion units annually. Now it looks like the wearable revolution could emerge faster than the mobile revolution that preceded it. Thanks to the technology revolution that shaped today’s smartphones, sensors and chip sets are smaller and cheaper than ever, making it easier for companies to incorporate sophisticated hardware into wearable devices.
Wearable devices hold the potential to eventually sell hundreds of millions of units annually if they can effectively address consumer interests by simplifying and/or improving quality of life.
Broad-based consumer adoption of wearable devices is contingent upon product designer’s ability to effectively address consumer interests; some of the wearable devices in the market today contain features that do not address key consumer interests and are effectively “technology demonstrations” in search of a customer. While there will be niche markets for some of the current or envisioned wearable devices, in order to scale beyond early adopters, wearables will need to innovate along the three axes of functionality, simplicity and convenience. Products like smart watches, fitness bands, action cameras and mobile healthcare devices best satisfy consumer interests and are expected to drive the highest growth rates.
But will wearable devices be the demise of our beloved smartphones?  In the foreseeable future, wearable devices will generally exist as companion devices to smartphones. There are two dominant smartphone ecosystems today, Apple and Google. Of the smartphone leaders, Apple and Samsung, in addition to challengers such as the Chinese indigenous smartphone makers, are best positioned to effectively link together new wearable devices with smartphones. This will provide them with a distinct market advantage.
There is also the added opportunity of new business collaboration; companies like Apple, Google and Samsung could seek partnerships with existing medical device manufacturers to enable mobile healthcare devices or team up with fashion luxury brands for devices like smartphones and fitness bands.
As a broad-based supplier of energy efficient innovations, ON Semiconductor is uniquely positioned to address the key semiconductor requirements of wearable devices spanning power and battery management, communications, control, sensors, complex device integration and micro-packaging. Wearable devices are an important growth market for the company and we are actively working with customers to develop solutions optimized to meet their design requirements. Today you can find our products in various smart watches, fitness bands and action cameras, as well as other types of wearable devices. In addition, ON Semiconductor is a leading semiconductor supplier to the medical device market ranging from complex SoCs for hearing aids to ASICs and ASSPs for implantable, digital imaging and medical diagnostic devices. This uniquely positions the company to enable emerging mobile health devices.