WP-72-08 Datasheet, PDF (3/12 Pages) Cymbet Corporation – The 8 Key Competitive Advantages of Solid State Batteries

Executive Briefing
Avoiding an Energy Storage Crisis
"MPU density [should continue to
double] on a two-year cycle
through 2013 and on a three-
year cycle afterwards. Flash
device scaling will sustain
bits/chip doubling on a two-year
cycle. And DRAM is on a three-
year cycle."
- The International Technology
Roadmap for Semiconductors:
2011
Fig. 3: Projected global growth in Wi-Fi
hotspots through 2015
Source: Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint™,
February 2012
"Smart systems will drive a
multi-year wave of growth
based on the convergence of
innovations in software
architectures, back-room data
center operations, wireless and
broadband communications,
and smaller, powerful, and
numerous client devices
connected to personal, local
and wide-area networks."
- Harbor Research
scaling will sustain bits/chip doubling on a two-year cycle. And
DRAM is on a three-year cycle."^v
Integration of system-in-package (SiP) solutions will become
increasingly important, say the ITRS authors. Embedded
components, integrated passive devices and 3D stacking will be
used more extensively to integrate off-chip components.^vi
Even greater advances are expected in wireless connectivity,
sensor networking and smart systems.
Wi-Fi, even after enormous recent expansion, seems set to
explode with the introduction of Next Generation Hotspots
(NGH) and Wi-Fi roaming, starting in 2013. The Wireless
Broadband Alliance says NGH and Wi-Fi roaming will allow
users to seamlessly connect to Wi-Fi hotspots without the need
for usernames and passwords. These advancements will help
operators “establish relationships with each other, so their
users can access a wide variety of Hotspots in their own
country and around the world.”^vii As a result, the Wi-Fi Alliance
expects the number of nonresidential Wi-Fi hotspots to grow
rapidly, at least through 2015 (Figure 3).^viii
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) “will eventually enable the
automatic monitoring of forest fires, avalanches, hurricanes,
failure of country wide utility equipment, traffic, hospitals and
much more over wide areas, something previously impossible,”
says technology research firm IDTechEx. They expect a four-
fold increase in the WSN market over the next 10 years.^ix
And network technology consultancy Harbor Research believes
the “smart device boom” has just begun. In their recent market
overview, Machine-To-Machine (M2M) & Smart Systems Market
Opportunity 2010-2014, they conclude, “Smart systems will
drive a multi-year wave of growth based on the convergence of
innovations in software architectures, back-room data center
operations, wireless and broadband communications, and
smaller, powerful, and numerous client devices connected to
personal, local and wide-area networks.”^x
These are just a few examples of how the trends listed above
are accelerating and converging. Obviously, they represent
enormous opportunity for electronics manufacturers. But they
also present enormous challenges.
Current Energy Storage Systems Can't Keep Pace
One of our biggest challenges for the next several years will be
finding new ways to assure continuous power to increasingly
smaller and more isolated (mobile or remote) devices. Current
methods for MCU, RTC and SRAM backup, for power smoothing,
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