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ECG feature attributing to growth of medical wearables market

Extraordinary growth in wearables is being seen post covid years, covid alone is not the main reason. Major chunk of gadget friendly population were buying wearble for health monitoring even before covid. It's not just gadget crazy people buying wearable devices, even the cost conscious ordinary buyer thinking of investing in a wearable device for the benefits it gives. It saves time in monitoring health of aged person and sick person at home remotely. The cost and pain of hospitalisation is driving the fear among health-conscious people to give importance to preventive healthcare and that is driving the market for the use of wearable devices by healthy people. What is hurting the wearable industry is the shortage of semiconductor chips. Consumer electronics can manage with components which are not necessarily as robust as aerospace/mil grade or automotive grade with lot of certifications and approvals. That is helping the consumer-wearble industry to procure semiconductor devices from chip fabs/foundries which don't really fulfil extreme high reliability of components and most of the chips go inside wearable need not be made in cutting edge nodes like 5nm. Even a 28nm is lot good enough for many applications. The use of wearable devices is rising among common public due to the importance they are giving to daily monitoring of health parameters such as heartbeat, body...
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