Demand for "outdated" products developed many years ago has surged again in the areas of electronic components and semiconductors, the Japan economic news reported. The reason is that the low price of the old components can also support the "IoT" of all types of equipment. At the same time, it can give full play to its functions, and it does not need the most advanced performance as the digital products such as smart phones. Technological changes, the ever-changing high-tech industries, have begun to re-examine the old products.

Japan's large electronic component manufacturer sun lure will provide the ultra low power communication module (integrated component) for the IoT equipment communication service which Softbank started in the summer of 2017. In addition, the Israeli communications semiconductor manufacturers and SONY's Altair semiconductor (Altair Semiconductor) cooperation, the development of the replacement of a battery can be used continuously for more than 10 years of communication module.

A communication module is a window in which the device sends and receives radio waves. For the main supply object, the communication components provided by smart phones must realize high-speed communications which can be networked more than once per second. On the one hand, the Internet of things devices need to periodically send temperature and humidity information and location information collected by sensors. In order to reduce the amount of data on the communication lines, the access frequency needs to be reduced.

Therefore, compared with the speed of communication, power saving performance need more parts. In addition to smart meters, even the use of battery drivers in the monitoring of sensors such as bridges and dams also requires a steady operation of 10 years. The sun lure will apply the accumulated technology to the Internet of things equipment, and realize the "most suitable standard" requirement by softbank.

TDK, Alps electric and Fujitsu components and other enterprises have also launched a low-power wireless communications specifications, low-power Bluetooth (BLE) communication module. The enterprise also is developing in processing performance, the pursuit of a more stable driving vehicle parts etc.. KYOCERA's information system will develop communications devices that can be used at slower, cheaper networks.

In the semiconductor field, "outdated products" are also popular. Renesas electronics and Swiss STMicroelectronics are using more than 10 years ago to achieve micro processing technology, mass production, control of the Internet of things using sensors micro computers. With the old production equipment that has been depreciated, a large quantity of spare parts can be supplied at a low price.

Affected by this, the demand for used semiconductor manufacturing equipment is also rising. If the diameter of the semiconductor wafer is 200 mm, the older equipment manufactured over 10 years ago can also achieve full performance. Hitachi high tech from the summer of 2016 started to provide for old equipment maintenance services. 10-20 years ago, equipment that was worn down for years was examined, and alternative parts and components were offered.