Ambiq Micro, a leading provider of ultra-low power solutions, has announced that Huawei has selected Apollo2 platform to power the new lineup of lightweight fitness wearables including the newly launched Huawei Band 2 Pro. The platform features high-performance sensor and application processing at a breakthrough power consumption of under 10µA/MHz, thus enabling more than twice the battery life for wearable and IoT devices and enhanced intelligence and improved functionality.

 

Apollo2 platform is equipped with Ambiq Micro’s patented Subthreshold Power Optimised Technology. It includes wide-range IP to drive record-breaking energy efficiency. Besides, the platform makes use of TSMC’s 40nm Near-Vt technology platform to reduce power consumption, thereby meeting the stringent power and connectivity demands of the wearables and IoT markets.

 

 

The wearables and IoT markets are rising rapidly due to which customers are demanding increased intelligence, extended battery life, and more powerful features. Ambiq’s Apollo2 platform is very well meeting these requirements by reducing energy consumption and leaving plenty of space for sensor and application processing power. 

 

“Ambiq’s groundbreaking low-power technology is critical because consumers are demanding always-on, always-connected, always-aware devices with longer battery life and slimmer, more fashionable form factors,” said Rico Zhang, Smart Wearable Product Line President of Huawei. “We are very pleased to offer the most innovative fitness wearables in the market, enabled by Ambiq Micro’s Apollo2 platform.”

Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of pioneering ultra-low power technology, innovative companies around the world are developing differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility. 

 

Ambiq Micro has developed breakthrough technology based on its patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT™) platform that dramatically reduces the amount of power consumed by semiconductors thus making its integrated circuits (ICs) an ideal solution for energy critical applications. Ambiq Micro is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

TSMC is the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, providing the industry’s leading process technology and the foundry’s largest portfolio of process-proven libraries, IPs, design tools and reference flows. The Company’s owned capacity in 2017 is expected to reach above 11 million (12-inch equivalent) wafers, including capacity from three advanced 12-inch GIGAFAB® facilities, four eight-inch fabs, one six-inch fab, as well as TSMC’s wholly owned subsidiaries, WaferTech and TSMC China. TSMC is the first foundry to provide both 20nm and 16nm production capabilities. Its corporate headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world’s population, ranking third in the world in mobile phone shipments in 2015. Sixteen R&D centers have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India, and China. 

 

Huawei Consumer Business Group is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PC, and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc. Huawei’s global network is built on 20 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.