Georges Karam -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Starting with the -- obviously with the MCU partnership. Again, if you look to the partners that each one has its own strategy, how to go to market and where to go with us, if you want, the baseline is obviously for which is common for all of them is to integrate the solution and get the software fully integrated and use them as a channel to market so this is you can guess that like this is almost similar. Obviously, when you look as well to the position of NXP versus Renesas versus Microchip, you're talking bit on MCU between 8 bits to 32 bits, various segments each one has some strengths and some of the segments less than others.
And this is really good for us because they complement each other the way we're seeing and it accelerate our go-to-market in general, in other words to bring more design wins. They also can look some kind of, they could be also help us winning big deals, when Sequans is challenged as a small company, because obviously having those big company backing us help us I will say closing the deals and avoid any issue that can be considered like from financial strength, I will say if this is the KPI for the customers.
With Renesas, what I want to say which is a little bit at least at the -- at the time being different from the other guys. The Renesas wanted to move much faster than the go-to-market strategy and offer directly under their brands modules integrating Sequans technology. And the partnership is really starting from this point, not only integrating the software, but they want to integrate the hardware and have their own modules, branded Renesas, where Sequans chip is inside and will be sold to the market.
Obviously, the module will not be only integrating Sequans technology. They will add their own MCU and their own Bluetooth and so on to make a variety of module. And this is in other words, they can look in the future, Renesas can be a customer if you want from this point of view, because they will be buying chips from us and it will be generating direct business versus the other guys it will be indirect because it will be coming from the end customer. And again, very hard to quantify it. For the time being, all what I could say they are going to be, to help us a lot in the growth of Massive IoT because it gives us reach and obviously acceleration of the design win.
On Monarch 2 timeline, the chip is sampling to customer as I said. We are giving this to customer. We're expecting end of this year to go through the certification process, which will be like in Q1 we should be done, but already before reaching the certification, before going with the certification, because we have the certified software and so on. We already sample this to some alpha customers. And already I mentioned two of them selected the product, selected the chip for the future, everybody is giving us extremely good feedback on the power consumption, on the cusp of the solution globally, because the integration we have done. And we have some advanced feature that no one has, like we're engaging with the carriers on this, which is the integrated SIM. So quite happy about this product. And this is, again, will be key driver for next year.
And about Itron, I don't want to comment much about the nature of the project just to keep it confidential for our customer, but nothing to hide there. It will be -- it's metering. But the timeline, for the timeline in terms of revenue, it takes the time to qualify the meter. So for us, we expect this more beginning of 2022 in terms of revenue than next year. But it's a big project, because you could imagine the size of those deals that we can be, what, how much Itron can generate in terms of number of meters, they can do. |
