STMicroelectronics

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STMicroelectronics N.V.
Company typeNaamloze vennootschap[why?]
Euronext Paris: STMPA
smartcards
RevenueIncrease US$17.24 billion (2023)
Increase US$4.611 billion (2023)
Increase US$4.222 billion (2023)
Total assetsIncrease US$24.45 billion (2023)
Total equityIncrease US$16.85 billion (2023)
Number of employees
51,323 (2023)
Websitewww.st.com Edit this at Wikidata
Footnotes / references
[1]
STM32 microcontroller made by STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics N.V. (commonly referred to as ST or STMicro) is a multinational corporation and technology company of French-Italian origin. It is headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the Euronext Paris in Paris (CAC 40) and on the Borsa Italiana in Milan (FTSE MIB).[2] ST is the largest European semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. The company resulted from the merger of two government-owned semiconductor companies in 1987: Thomson Semiconducteurs (Thomson Semiconductors) of France and SGS Microelettronica (SGS Microelectronic) of Italy.

History

ST was formed in 1987 by the merger of two government-owned semiconductor companies: Italian

Thomson
.

SGS Microelettronica originated in 1972 from a previous merger of two companies:

  • ATES (Aquila Tubi e Semiconduttori), a vacuum tube and semiconductor maker headquartered in L'Aquila, the regional capital of the region of Abruzzo in Southern Italy, which in 1961 changed its name to Azienda Tecnica ed Elettronica del Sud and relocated its manufacturing plant in the Industrial Zone of Catania, in Sicily;
  • Società Generale Semiconduttori (founded in 1957 by Jewish-Italian engineer, politician, and
    industrialist Adriano Olivetti
    ).

Thomson Semiconducteurs was created in 1982 by the French government's widespread nationalization of industries following the election of socialist François Mitterrand to the presidency. It included:

At the time of the merger of these two companies in 1987, the new corporation was named SGS-THOMSON and was led by chief executive officer Pasquale Pistorio. [3] The company took its current name of STMicroelectronics in May 1998 following Thomson's sale of its shares. After its creation ST was ranked 14th among the top 20 semiconductor suppliers with sales of around US$850 million. The company has participated in the consolidation of the semiconductor industry since its formation, with acquisitions including:

  • In 1989, British company Inmos known for its transputer microprocessors from parent Thorn EMI;
  • In 1994, Canada-based Nortel's semiconductor activities;
  • In 1999, UK, Edinburgh based VLSI-Vision CMOS Image Sensor research & development company, a spin-out of Edinburgh University. Incorporated on 1 January 2000, the company became STMicroelectronics Imaging Division, currently part of the Analog MEMS and Sensors business group;
  • In 2000, WaferScale Integration Inc. (WSI, Fremont, California), a vendor of EPROM and flash memory-based programmable system-chips;[4]
  • In 2002, Alcatel's Microelectronics division, which along with the incorporation of smaller ventures such as UK company, Synad Ltd, helped the company expand into the Wireless-LAN market;
  • In 2007, US-based Genesis Microchip.[5] Genesis Microchip is known for their strength in video processing technology (Faroudja) and has design centres located in Santa Clara, California, Toronto, Taipei City and Bangalore.
4 Field-Programmable Microcontroller Peripheral from Wafer Scale Integration PSD311

On December 8, 1994, the company completed its initial public offering on the

Freescale
. The company was the largest European semiconductors supplier, ahead of Infineon and NXP.

Early in 2007, NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) and Freescale (formerly Motorola Semiconductors) decided to stop their participation in Crolles 2 Alliance. Under the terms of the agreement the Alliance came to an end on December 31, 2007.

ST Ericsson, a joint venture bringing together ST-NXP Wireless and Ericsson Mobile Platforms, was established.[7]

ST Ericsson was a multinational manufacturer of

semiconductor manufacturing
to foundry companies.

ST90E40ZL1 - HCMOS MCU with 16Kbytes EPROM, 512 bytes EEPROM, 256 bytes RAM and A/D Converter in a 68-leaded windowed ceramic quad flat pack package

In 2011, ST announced the creation of a joint lab with Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. The lab focuses on research and innovation in biorobotics, smart systems and microelectronics.[9] Past collaborations with Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies included DustBot, a platform that integrated self-navigating "service robots" for waste collection.[9]

In 2018, chief executive Carlo Bozotti was succeeded by Jean-Marc Chery.[10] In 2023, STMicroelectronics partnered with Synopsys to design a working chip on Microsoft Corp’s cloud, marking the first time AI software had been utilized for chip design. [11]

Shareholders

As of December 31, 2014, the shareholders were:[12]

Manufacturing facilities

Unlike

fabs. The company owned five 8-inch (200 mm) wafer fabs and one 12-inch (300 mm) wafer fab in 2006.[citation needed] Most of the production is scaled at 0.18 µm, 0.13 µm, 90 nm and 65 nm (measurements of transistor gate length). STMicroelectronics also owns back-end plants, where silicon dies are assembled and bonded into plastic or ceramic packages.[13]

Major sites include: [citation needed]

Grenoble, France

fab lines are now closed but the site hosts the headquarters of many divisions (marketing, design, industrialization) and an important R&D center, focused on silicon and software design and fab process development.[14]

The Crolles site hosts a 200 mm (8 in) and a 300 mm (12 in) fab and was originally built as a common R&D center for submicrometre technologies as part of the 1990 Grenoble 92 partnership between SGS-Thomson and CNET, the R&D center of French telecom company France Telecom.[15] The 200 mm (8 in) fab, known as Crolles 1, is the company's first and was built as part of a 1991 partnership between SGS-Thomson and Philips to develop new manufacturing technologies. Crolles 1 was opened on September 9, 1993 by Gérard Longuet, French minister for industry, and Alain Carignon, mayor of Grenoble.

The 300 mm (12 in) fab was inaugurated by French president

Freescale (formerly Motorola semiconductor) partnered in 2002 to develop the facility and to work together on process development.[16] The technologies developed at the facility were also used by global semiconductor foundry TSMC
of Taiwan, allowing TSMC to build the products developed in Crolles on behalf of the Alliance partners who required such foundry capacity. A new fab is under construction since 2015.

Rousset, France

Employing around 3,000 staff,

microcontrollers, and EEPROM as well as several R&D centers. Rousset also hosts an 8-inch (200-mm) fab, which was opened on May 15, 2000 by French prime minister Lionel Jospin.[17][18]

The site opened in 1979 as a 100 mm (3.9 in)

fab was upgraded into 130 mm (5 in) and later 150 mm (6 in) fab in 1996. It is now being shut down. The site also has a "Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging" accreditation for eSIM ICs.[19]

In 1988, a small group of employees from the Thomson Rousset plant (including the director, Marc Lassus) founded a start-up company,

Gemplus
), which became a leader in the smartcard industry.

Tours, France

Employing 1,500 staff, this site hosts a

fab and R&D centers.[20]

Milan, Italy

Employing 6,000 staff, the Milan facilities match Grenoble in importance.

fab lines (including a 300 mm (12 in) fab) and an R&D center.[21] Castelletto
, employs 300 to 400 staff and hosts some divisions and R&D centers.

Update-2012: Numonyx JV (with Intel) is acquired by Micron. As such, R2 Fab (Agrate previous R&D 200-mm Fab) is currently a Micron entity

Catania, Italy

The Catania plant in Sicily employs 5,000 staff and hosts several R&D centers and divisions, focusing on flash memory technologies as well as two fabs. The plant was launched in 1961 by ATES to supply under licensing to RCA of the US and initially using germanium. The site's two major wafer fabs are a 200 mm (8 in) fab, opened in April 1997 by then-Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, and a 300 mm (12 in) fab that has never been completed and which was transferred in its current state to "Numonyx" in 2008. A new manufacturing facility for silicon carbide (SiC) substrates of 150 mm should open here in 2023.[22]

In October 2022, the EU supported STMicroelectronics for the construction of a silicon carbide wafer plant in Catania with €293 million through the Recovery and Resilience Facility to be completed in 2026, and in line with the European Chips Act.[23]

Caserta, Italy

STmicro eSIM and SIM production facility for embedded form factor eSIM.[24]

Kirkop, Malta

As of 2010, ST employed some 1,500 people in

exporter.[25]

Singapore

In 1970, SGS created its first assembly back-end plant in Singapore, in the area of Toa Payoh. Then in 1981, SGS decided to build a wafer

fab
in Singapore. The Singapore technical engineers have been trained in Italy and the fab of Ang Mo Kio started to produce its first wafers in 1984. Converted up to 200 mm (8 in) fab, this is now an important 200 mm (8 in) wafer fab of the group. Ang Mo Kio also hosts some design centers.[26] As of 2004, the site employed 6,000 staff.[27]

Update-2012: Numonyx JV (with Intel) is acquired by Micron in 2010. As such, AMK8 Fab (200mm HVM Fab) is currently a Micron entity. AMK5 and AMK6 remains to be STM entities. Update-2019: AMK8 has been reacquired by STM from Micron.

Tunis, Tunisia

Application, design and support. about 110 employees. Divisions: MCD

Bouskoura, Morocco

Founded in 1979 as a radiofrequency products facility, the Bouskoura site now hosts back-end manufacturing activity, which includes chip testing and packaging.[28] Since 2022 it also features a production line for silicon carbide products that primarily will be used in electric vehicles.[29]

Norrköping, Sweden

The Norrköping plant is a wafer fab that, at the start of production in 2021, was the first to produce 200mm (8 in) Silicone Carbide wafers. The wafers are mostly used for SiC power devices.[30]

Other sites

Administrative headquarters

  • Geneva, Switzerland: Corporate headquarter which hosts most of the ST top management. It totals some hundred of employees.
  • Saint-Genis-Pouilly, France, near Geneva: A few hundred of employees. Headquarters for logistics.
  • Paris: Marketing and support.

Regional headquarters

Assembly plants

  • Malta: In 1981, SGS-Thomson (now STMicroelectronics) built its first assembly plant in Malta. STMicroelectronics is, as of 2008, the largest private employer on the island, employing around 1,800 people.
  • Muar, Malaysia
    : around 4000 employees. This site was built in 1974 by Thomson and is now an assembly plant.
  • Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China: In 1994, ST and the Shenzhen Electronics Group signed a partnership to construct and jointly operate an assembly plant (ST has majority with 60%). The plant is located in Futian Free Trade Zone and became operational in 1996. It has around 3,300 employees. A new assembly plant is built in Longgang since 2008, and closed up till 2014. The R&D, design, sales and marketing office is located in the Hi-tech industrial park in Nanshan district.
  • Calamba in the province of Laguna, Philippines: In 2008, ST acquired this plant from NXP Semiconductors. Initially as part of joint venture with NXP but later acquired the whole share turning it into a full-fledged STMicroelectronics Assembly and Testing plant. Currently it employs 2,000 employees.

Design centers

Closing sites

The

Ain Sebaa, Morocco fab are beginning rampdown plans, and are destined to close by 2010.[33]

The Casablanca, Morocco site consists of two assembly parts (Bouskoura and Aïn Sebaâ) and totals around 4000 employees. It was opened in the 1960s by Thomson.

The Bristol, United Kingdom site employing well over 300 at its peak (in 2001/2) but was ramped down to approx. 150 employees at close by early 2014.

The Ottawa, Ontario, Canada plant (approx. 450 employees) will close down by 2013 end.[34]

Closed sites

Future locations

See also

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