Renesas Electronics's smart meter market share has reached 60%

Since the first tender after the issuance of the new statute of the State Grid Corporation of China in December last year, the market share of smart meters using Renesas Electronics' MCU chips has reached 60%. The new smart meter standard requires a chip to provide more storage space, more reliable performance, and a higher price/performance ratio.

Li Tangshan, MCU Product Marketing Manager, Renesas Electronics Shanghai Branch, Li Tangshan, said: “Renesas Electronics has achieved such a good result because its products have The following four key decisive features: 1) product lines covering single-phase, three-phase smart meters, concentrators and terminal equipment; 2) higher cost-effectiveness and strong technical support; 3) continuous innovation; 4) stability Supply."

The difficulty in designing smart meters for the new standards is to maintain high performance, good stability, and immunity to interference while maintaining a high level of integration, while maintaining low development costs.

The Renesas Electronics smart meter solution is ideally suited to the requirements of the Chinese smart meter market. Li Tangshan said: "First of all, products with higher anti-jamming performance to adapt to different grid environments, followed by China's electric meter market is facing an unprecedented brutal price war, in this situation, Renesas Electronics Solutions through the chip integrated RTC, LVI, Functional modules such as POC, LCD, and AFE, plus their own peripherals such as EEPROMs, PLCs, and optocouplers, will save customers more cost.”

Before the introduction of the new standard of smart meters, the development of smart meters in various provinces of China was in a state of individualism. Different regions have different standards and many kinds of phenotypes, resulting in a huge workload for the watch factory. Test and production pressures also increase. Despite this, the construction of China's smart grid is still a precedent in the world.

After the introduction of the new standard, Renesas Electronics seriously studied the statutes, responded to the various opportunities and challenges in the national smart grid construction process with the agile market and the fastest development speed.

China is currently vigorously advancing the construction of smart grids. Smart meters are the bricks and stones for smart grid construction, and they are also important information transfer stations for households. They themselves have gone far beyond simple measurement functions. The smart meter we see today is also a device that connects the outside world. Smart grids and semiconductor companies also complement each other and develop together. The construction of power grids has promoted the innovation of semiconductor industry technologies and processes, which is also a revolution for the semiconductor industry.