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Semtech’s vision is to be the global leader in analog/mixed-signal platforms that enable our customers to gain an architectural and performance advantage. The Company has thousands of products that provide circuit protection, power management, signal integrity and wireless and sensing functionality.
High-End Consumer [+]
Consumers across the globe are embracing a “digital lifestyle” that is delivered through even more powerful mobile devices. Smartphones, tablets and increasingly, new wearable devices are changing how consumers access and process real-time information. With Semtech technology, manufacturers of these devices and other high-end consumer systems can create differentiated solutions that are unique, highly integrated and energy efficient.
- Target End Markets: Smartphones, tablets, cameras, TVs, set-top boxes, wearable devices and laptops
- Semtech Platforms: Circuit protection, power management, wireless power, RF transceivers and sensors
- Percent of Semtech’s 2015 business: 31%
Enterprise Computing [+]
The increasing demands on datacenters require even greater bandwidth across system backplanes, between servers, and between storage and other peripheral devices. This high-speed connectivity is driving the demand for Semtech’s high-performance enterprise computing platforms that deliver higher performance, lower power optical networking solutions from 1Gbps to 100Gbps.
- Target End Markets: Servers, datacenters, storage networks, fiber-to-the-home, PON and cloud computing
- Semtech Platforms: Power management, circuit protection and signal integrity
- Percent of Semtech’s 2015 business: 21%
Industrial [+]
The Internet of Things (IoT) delivers new levels of process efficiency, access and control using networks based on embedded and remote sensors that can track and control equipment and devices. With Semtech LoRa™ (long-range) wireless technology, cities can become smarter and more efficient through the use of smart metering, smart irrigation, smart lighting and other smart resource management and infrastructure systems. Semtech technology is a key enabler of the IoT market and other industrial markets including the automotive, video broadcast and medical markets.
- Target End Markets: IoT, smart grid, AMR, home automation, broadcast video, automotive, medical, security and surveillance
- Semtech Platforms: Wireless and sensing, power line communications (PLC), HD/UHD video and surveillance, power and high-reliability and wireless charging
- Percent of Semtech’s 2015 business: 26%
Communications [+]
As the information age depends more on the Cloud for computing and communications, Internet and telecom service providers are building the high-speed optical and wireless networks required to deliver critical backhaul performance for the consumer. With Semtech technology, these companies can build high-density/high-throughput routers, switches and base stations that connect faster and enable higher capacity at much lower power.
- Target End Markets: 3G/4G base stations, routers and switches, 1Gbps to 100Gbps optical modules, backplanes and other communications infrastructure
- Semtech Platforms: Signal integrity, timing and synchronization, power and high reliability and circuit protection
- Percent of Semtech’s 2015 business: 22%