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THE SILICON BEHIND INDUSTRY 4.0
Industry is everywhere, from mining and energy to manufacturing, agriculture, and smart cities. These interdependent segments are all being reshaped by Industry 4.0, and semiconductors are the common thread powering that transformation, turning industrial ambition into intelligent, connected reality.
Industry 4.0 is rewiring the overall value chain by connecting factories, machines, and data like never before. And semiconductor technologies are not too far! Indeed, smart sensors, power devices, and data processing chips are the backbone of this shift, turning traditional plants into intelligent, autonomous systems.
Milan Rosina, PhD Principal Analyst, Power Electronics at Yole Group – “Industry 4.0 isn’t just about automation, it’s about giving every machine in the value chain the intelligence to sense, decide, and act in real time.”
Beyond autonomy, the industry is going green, electric, and digital. Players like BYD, Tesla, Siemens, and ABB span solar, EV charging, and energy storage, often sharing the same core components, voltages, and converter platforms across applications.
High energy conversion efficiency sits at the core of everything we track, at Yole Group. It’s the driving force behind more efficient system topologies, next-generation semiconductor materials, and innovative power-device architectures.
As industrial systems electrify and “batteryfy” at speed, the demand for smarter power management has never been higher.
Machine vision adds another critical layer of intelligence, giving manufacturers a concrete, real-time understanding of their processes.
Paired with supply chain robotization and its ever-growing appetite for data processing and machine learning, these technologies are turning industrial automation from a concept into a competitive necessity.
As industrial technologies mature, value is shifting, from simply manufacturing a product to delivering the services built around it. Systems monitoring, predictive and reparative maintenance, and end-of-life treatment are becoming just as important as the hardware itself.
Yole Group’s analysts stay at the core of these shifts, tracking the technology challenges and innovations behind every industrial segment and the semiconductor devices that power them.
Just as importantly, we connect the dots across applications, helping you spot the business opportunities that exist beyond your own core industry.
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