STMicroelectronics N.V., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific.
The company offers a range of products used in a wide variety of applications for the four end-markets it addresses: Automotive, Industrial, Personal Electronics and Communications Equipment, Computers and Peripherals.
For the Automotive and Industrial markets, the company addresses a wide customer bas...
STMicroelectronics N.V., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific.
The company offers a range of products used in a wide variety of applications for the four end-markets it addresses: Automotive, Industrial, Personal Electronics and Communications Equipment, Computers and Peripherals.
For the Automotive and Industrial markets, the company addresses a wide customer base, particularly in Industrial, with a broad and deep product portfolio.
In Personal Electronics, and in Communications Equipment, Computers, and Peripherals, the company has a selective approach, both in terms of the customers it serves, as well as in the technologies and products it offers, while leveraging its broad portfolio to address high-volume applications.
The company’s diverse product portfolio includes discrete and general-purpose components, application-specific integrated circuit (ASICs), full-custom devices, and semi-custom devices, as well as application-specific standard product (ASSPs) for analog, digital, and mixed-signal applications. It benefits from a unique, strong foundation of proprietary and differentiated leading-edge technologies. The company uses all of the prevalent function-oriented process technologies, including complementary metal-on silicon oxide semiconductor (CMOS), bipolar, and non-volatile memory technologies. In addition, by combining basic processes, it has developed advanced systems-oriented technologies that enable it to produce differentiated and application-specific products, including fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology offering superior performance and power efficiency compared to bulk CMOS, Bi-CMOS, and RF-SOI for mixed-signal and high-frequency applications, SiPho technology using silicon-based materials to develop photonic circuits, as well as BCD, VIPpower, and intelligent integrated gallium-nitride (‘STI2GaN’) technologies for smart power applications, power metal-on silicon oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), silicon carbide (SiC), and gallium-nitride gallium nitride (GaN) for high-efficiency systems, MEMS technologies for sensors and actuators, embedded memory technologies for its microcontrollers, and differentiated optical sensing technologies for its optical sensing solutions.
Strategy
The company is 50,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. As an integrated device manufacturer, it works with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to enable and support a more sustainable world.
The company’s strategy focuses on sustainable long-term value creation for it and its affiliated enterprises, and takes into account the short-, medium-, and long-term evolution of the markets it serves, and the environment and opportunities it sees. It stems from key long-term trends in electronic systems. These key trends are smart mobility, where the company provides innovative solutions to help car manufacturers make driving safer, greener, and more connected; power & energy: its technology and solutions enable industries to increase energy efficiency and support the use of renewable energy; and cloud-connected autonomous things, which transform lives and the objects people use with smart, connected devices for personal, business, and industrial applications.
The company’s strong focus, as a broad range player, is on high-growth applications, such as: in automotive, electrified powertrain, advanced driver assistance systems (‘ADAS’), and legacy systems; in industrial, with energy management at large, battery-operated tools, automation and robotics, as well as, more selectively, on premium personal electronics devices, data center power management and connectivity, and low-earth-orbit satellite communications.
Product Information
With the company’s portfolio of semiconductor products, it serves customers across the spectrum of electronics applications with innovative solutions.
The company has a portfolio of power products and analog products, including sensors, signal channel devices, and output power stages - discrete and/or integrated - as well as complete power management blocks. The company’s analog products, including both general-purpose and application-specific, can fulfill the needs of a wide range of designs and systems.
The company also has digital products that are at the heart of electronics systems, including microcontrollers and microprocessors, ASICs, and optical sensing solutions. The company’s full set of microcontrollers and microprocessors includes one of the industry’s broadest ranges of general-purpose devices serving all market segments, microprocessors addressing the industrial market, secure microcontrollers for mobile devices, wearables, banking, identification, industrial, automotive, and Internet of Things (‘IoT’) markets, and a series of embedded processing solutions for its addressed end-markets (Automotive, Industrial, Personal Electronics, and Communications Equipment, Computers, and Peripherals).
The company is one of the leading suppliers and innovators in the domain of semiconductor devices dedicated to automotive applications. Its offer includes a wide range of products, covering systems and functions from powertrain, chassis, and safety, to audio, infotainment, and telematics, as well as body and convenience. The company offers automotive microcontrollers, as well as solutions for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and it provides automotive-grade micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS), as well as imaging solutions. The company’s portfolio also features a comprehensive range of analog and power solutions, including wide bandgap devices for hybrid and electric vehicles. The products are designed and manufactured specifically for automotive applications and complemented by a large range of ‘automotive grade’ standard products, both tested and guaranteed to perform under stringent automotive environmental conditions.
Segments
As of December 31, 2024, the company’s reportable segments were as follows:
In the company’s Analog, Power & Discrete, MEMS, and Sensors (‘APMS’) product group:
Analog Products, MEMS, and Sensors (‘AM&S’) segment consisted of ST analog products, MEMS sensors and actuators, and optical sensing solutions.
Power and Discrete products (‘P&D’) segment consisted of discrete and power transistor products.
In the company’s Microcontrollers, Digital ICs, and RF products (‘MDRF’) product group:
Microcontrollers (‘MCU’) segment consisted of general-purpose microcontrollers, secure and automotive microcontrollers, microprocessors, and connected security products (including EEPROM).
Digital ICs and RF Products (‘D&RF’) segment consisted of automotive ADAS, infotainment, RF, and communication products.
Analog, Power & Discrete, MEMS, and Sensors (‘APMS’) product group
Analog Products, MEMS, and Sensors (‘AM&S’) segment
Analog Integrated Circuits
The company develops a broad range of innovative smart power and analog ICs, comprising both application-specific and general-purpose analog products. These serve a wide spectrum of markets and applications, including automotive, smart grid, cloud computing, data servers, industrial automation, power conversion, and personal electronics.
The company is a supplier of analog semiconductor devices for the automotive industry worldwide, enabling the electrification and digitalization of the car, and the pervasion of electronics in both traditional internal combustion engine vehicles, as well as in electric cars, full or hybrid. Based on the company’s proprietary BCD and VIPpower technologies, it provides solutions for a range of car systems, such as battery management, traction engine, braking systems, airbag, door zone, e-fuse, and power management for ECUs.
In Industrial, the company’s product families include ASICs and ASSPs, covering motion control, power and energy management, and factory automation. It continuously introduces new devices in its MasterGaN and VIPerGaN families, integrating a silicon driver and GaN power transistors in a single package. The company’s connectivity ICs range from wireline to wireless solutions. For wireline communication, it offers a complete family of transceivers compatible with different protocol standards used in the industry. Finally, it has a strong presence with its galvanically isolated gate drivers (also known as the STGAP family) that are used both in industrial and automotive markets.
In Communications Equipment, Computers, and Peripherals, the company serves its customers with power management solutions for data storage, as well as addressing the high power and high efficiency needs for servers and AI data centers.
In Personal Electronics, the company provides custom analog ICs, mainly power management ICs for battery-powered devices. The company deploys wireless charging solutions from low to high power across applications from smartphones to wearables, as well as display power management ICs and FingerTip touch screen controllers.
In General-Purpose Analog, the company has a wide product portfolio addressing all the market segments, spanning high-end analog front-end products, AC-DC and DC-DC converters, gate drivers for MOSFETs, IGBTs, SiC, and GaN transistors, intelligent power switches, high & low side drivers, LED drivers, real-time clocks & timers, supervision and control ICs, as well as a comprehensive range of operational amplifiers (both low-voltage and high-voltage), comparators, and current-sense amplifiers.
MEMS Sensors and Actuators
The company’s MEMS portfolio includes both sensors and actuators for a broad range of applications, including smartphones, personal devices, computers, automotive, industrial, healthcare, and Internet of Things (IoT).
MEMS sensors include motion MEMS (accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetic sensors), environmental sensors (pressure, temperature, and presence detection), biosensors, and microphones. The company offers a unique sensor portfolio, from discrete to fully integrated solutions, high-performance sensor fusion to improve the accuracy of multi-axis sensor systems in order to enable highly demanding applications, such as navigation and location-based services, optical image stabilization, and high-level quality products. The company’s latest range of smart sensors includes machine learning and edge AI processing capabilities built into the sensor, enabling ultra-low power gesture recognition and tracking applications.
MEMS actuators include thermal and piezoelectric actuators for 2D and 3D printing in consumer, commercial, and industrial market applications, and piezoelectric actuators for applications, such as smartphone camera autofocus, MEMS loudspeakers, and image projection.
Optical Sensing Solutions
The company has a broad portfolio of optical sensing solutions based on its proprietary differentiated technologies, such as FlightSense and BrightSense. These address various markets, including 3D sensing for automotive applications, such as in-cabin monitoring and occupant detection, as well as for industrial and consumer applications. The company’s optical sensing solutions are composed of both specialized components developed for dedicated customer systems, and full optical sense and illumination system solutions targeting multiple customers.
Power and Discrete products (‘P&D’) segment
Discrete and Power Transistor
The company’s discrete and power transistors families include both power products and protection devices serving its end markets (Automotive, Industrial, Personal Electronics, and Communications Equipment, Computers, and Peripherals).
The company’s leading-edge power technologies cater to both high-voltage and low-voltage applications. It combines a full range of packaging options with innovative die bonding technologies, utilizing both silicon and wide bandgap materials. The company’s portfolio includes silicon MOSFETs, SiC MOSFETs, IGBTs, thyristors, rectifiers, and power modules, as well as a wide range of power bipolar transistors. It is expanding its offering based on wide bandgap materials with a full range of GaN-based power device solutions targeting a wide variety of applications.
The company’s portfolio of protection devices supports all industry requirements for electrical overstress and electrostatic surge protection, lightning surge protection, and automotive protection. The company’s devices meet or exceed international protection standards for electrical hazards on electronics boards found in the demanding markets it serves.
Microcontrollers, Digital ICs, and RF products (‘MDRF’) product group
Microcontrollers (‘MCU’) segment
General-purpose microcontrollers and microprocessors
The company’s general-purpose microcontroller product portfolio largely contains families of products based on 32-bit ARM-based Cortex-M0, -M0+, -M3, -M4, -M33, -M55, and M7 with the ARM TrustZone. The STM32N6 MCU series introduced in December 2024 is the company’s most powerful to date, and the first to embed the company’s proprietary neural processing unit, the neural-ART accelerator, currently delivering 600 times more machine-learning performance than a high-end STM32 MCU.
For each product family, a broad selection of features is available with respect to microcontroller performance, ultra-low power, memory size, peripherals, and packaging. Numerous dedicated families include features such as its TouchGFX advanced 3D graphics, dedicated peripherals for industrial motor controls, security features, and low-power wireless connectivity.
The company’s latest microprocessors product line targeting the industrial market features 64-bit processing and edge AI acceleration. Based on the ARM Cortex-A35, these microprocessors run up to 1.5GHz, enhancing the main processing capability compared to first-generation devices. Additionally, they come with a dedicated Linux distribution.
The STM32 family based on the ARM Cortex-M and -A processors is designed to offer significant degrees of freedom to microcontroller and microprocessor users. The product range combines very high performance, real-time capabilities, digital signal processing, and low-power, low-voltage operation, while maintaining full integration and ease of development. The company offers an unparalleled range of STM32 devices, accompanied by a vast choice of tools and software, including support for industrial safety standard IEC 61508 SIL2/3, human-machine interface.
In 2024, the company continued to strengthen its STM32 microcontroller ecosystem with various software releases and updates of STM32Cube, CubeMX, and TouchGFX. It also introduced the ST Edge AI suite, a comprehensive approach to help developers create AI for the tiny edge. This comprehensive portfolio makes the STM32 an ideal choice for enabling ever smarter objects for an increasingly broad range of applications.
Secure Microcontrollers and NFC solutions
The company offers cutting-edge solutions for secure and connected applications. Security is particularly critical to NFC, contactless, and wired connectivity technologies that target payment, identification, access control, and all secure transactions in mobile, industrial, consumer, and automotive applications. Building upon its 30+ years of experience in security, the company offers one of the most ambitious and coherent security portfolios, with the right level of protection from a basic identification of objects (tags and secure tags) to the most advanced security with its certified secure microcontrollers.
The company’s well-defined system-level architecture enables it to match its security strategy with current and future threats, accelerating its pervasion in the security ecosystem. It offers security solutions for everybody, creating the opportunity to address customers for whom security is a must.
With the STSECURE and ST25 portfolio, the company offers certified hardware and software solutions to answer the market demand in security and connectivity. In 2024, it delivered the industry’s first FIPS 140-3 certified trusted platform module (‘TPM’) for computer, server, and embedded systems. The company diversified its portfolio with the introduction of the ST25TA-E NFC tag IC to strengthen the security of digital product passports and blockchain-based applications by implementing state-of-the-art on-chip digital signature mechanism, TruST25 Edge.
Memories
The company’s wide range of small density serial non-volatile memories has among the highest industry performance. The serial EEPROM family ranges from 1 Kbit to 32 Mbits and offers the most common serial interfaces to facilitate adoption: I²C, SPI, and Microwire. In 2024, the company introduced Page EEPROM with two-in-one memory, creating a hybrid memory for applications that face extreme size and power constraints. The company’s wide range of products is also automotive compliant. Very small package options are available for applications where space is critical, such as in camera modules for consumer and mobile devices.
Automotive MCU
The company’s automotive microcontroller portfolio supports the ongoing transformation of the industry through electrification and digitalization of the car. It offers a complete portfolio of products able to address all the needs, from local actuation and smart sensing to high-performance real-time processing with cross-functional integration across multiple application domains.
The company’s Stellar family is a scalable ARM-based hardware architecture supporting real-time virtualization of multi-ASIL ECUs. It features a rich set of IOs and peripherals, and offers a unique over-the-air update value proposition. This is made possible by leveraging the company’s internally developed embedded non-volatile memory technology, built on 28nm FD-SOI technology. This is the industry’s first family of emerging technologies after eFlash, representing the most mature and smallest memory cell automotive-grade solution on the market. The Stellar family is optimized for electrification, including x-in-1 vehicle motion control computer, new vehicle architectures, and safety MCUs for safety-critical subsystems, such as ADAS, zone, and body integration.
In 2024, the company announced that it will build a new series in the STM32 family tailored for automotive. The STM32A will be designed for actuation at the very edge of the car network, such as car body control and smart sensor management, and will support ASIL B automotive safety level.
Digital ICs and RF Products (‘D&RF’) segment
RF Communications and ASICs
The company offers RF, digital, and mixed-signal ASICs, which are based on its proprietary FD-SOI, RF-SOI, and SiGe technologies, as well as foundry-based FinFET technologies, for satellite communications (satellites, ground stations, user antennas, and terminals), as well as networking infrastructure.
The company also uses its proprietary FD-SOI, RF-SOI, and SiGe technologies to provide RF and mmWave components for terrestrial communication, based on its know-how in analog and digital beamforming design techniques, to address massive MIMO antenna and 60GHz very-short-range ultra-low-power multi-gigabit/second links.
The company also addresses the fast-growing market of interconnect in data centers based on its SiGe and SiPho technologies.
ADAS, RF & Infotainment
The company is a player in ADAS, dedicated to improving the passenger experience and helping to avoid or minimize the severity of traffic accidents. It manufactures cutting-edge ADAS SoCs and radar systems that assist drivers with basic - high volume ADAS to advanced hand-off functions such as autonomous lane changing, front/rear collision avoidance, and traffic jam assistance, paving the way towards the most advanced eye-off systems. The company’s ADAS products meet the most stringent quality criteria required for automotive applications, guaranteeing a safer driving experience.
The company’s car infotainment portfolio includes comprehensive solutions for digital radios, audio amplification, and positioning systems. With the company’s continuous innovation, it is the leader in the audio infotainment market, with a wide range of power amplifiers meeting all the needs, from head units to premium audio, from telematics to AVAS.
The positioning portfolio includes families of SoC and RF solutions capable of receiving signals from different bands and multiple satellite constellations. These solutions are designed to enhance the accuracy of the user's position and ensure reliable, safe, and secure positioning even under poor satellite visibility conditions.
The company is also a provider of radio solutions for automotive infotainment systems and offers digital and analog terrestrial and satellite receivers, as well as multi-standard ICs designed to deliver world-class performance and functionality.
Customers and Applications
The company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets thousands of products, which it sells to over 200,000 customers. The company emphasizes a broad and balanced product portfolio, in the applications and regional markets it serves, which helps foster closer, strategic relationships with customers. The company’s major customers include (in alphabetical order) Apple, Bosch, Continental, Denso, Hyundai Motor, Mobileye, Samsung, SpaceX, Tesla, and Vitesco. This broad product breadth provides opportunities to enable application solutions and to supply such customers’ requirements for all their product and technology needs. The company also sells its products through its distribution channel.
In Automotive, the company has identified a significant evolution of the relationship with customers. Historically, semiconductor companies addressed the needs of carmakers mostly through tier 1 and/or tier 2 automotive industry suppliers with whom it works closely.
Sales, Marketing, and Distribution
The company’s sales and marketing are organized by a combination of regional and key account coverage, with the primary objective of accelerating sales growth and gaining market share. Emphasis is placed on strengthening the development of its global and major local accounts; boosting demand creation through an enhanced focus on geographical and key account coverage with strong technical and application expertise, supported in the mass market by its distribution channel and local initiatives; and establishing regional sales and marketing teams that are fully aligned with its end-markets, each as defined below: Automotive, Industrial (split into two verticals: a power and energy vertical, and a smart industrial IoT / automation vertical), Personal Electronics, and Communications Equipment, Computers, and Peripherals.
The company has four regional sales organizations reporting to a global head of Sales & Marketing: Americas, Asia Pacific excluding China (‘APeC’), China, and Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (‘EMEA’). The company’s regional sales organizations have a similar structure to enhance global coordination and go-to-market activities. The sales and marketing teams are strongly focused on profitable revenue growth and business performance, as well as on fostering demand creation, expanding the customer base, maximizing market share, developing new product roadmaps, and providing the best technical and application support in the field for its customers. The sales and marketing activities are supported by sales engineers, system marketing, product marketing, application labs, competence centers, field application engineers, and quality engineers.
In the first quarter of 2024, the company announced that it would complement the existing sales & marketing organization (the ‘Sales & Marketing’ organization) by implementing a new Segment Marketing and Application (‘SM&A’) organization, offering customers end-to-end system solutions based on the company’s product and technology portfolio, covering the following four end markets: automotive end-market (‘Automotive’); industrial end-market (‘Industrial’), split into two verticals: a power and energy vertical, and a smart industrial IoT / automation vertical; personal electronics end-market (‘Personal Electronics’); and communications equipment, computers, and peripherals end-market (‘Communications Equipment, Computers, and Peripherals’).
The regional Sales & Marketing organization remained unchanged.
The company’s distributors have a dual role, in that they assist in fulfilling the demand of its customers by servicing their orders, while also supporting the creation of product demand and business development.
At the request of certain customers, the company also sells and delivers its products to EMS companies, which, on a contractual basis with its customers, incorporate its products into the application-specific products they manufacture for its customers. The company also sells products to original design manufacturers (‘ODM’). ODMs manufacture products for its customers much like EMS companies do, but they also design applications for its customers, and in doing so, themselves select the products and suppliers that they wish to purchase from.
Research and Development (R&D)
The total amount of the company’s R&D expenses was $2,077 million in 2024.
Intellectual Property
The company owns over 21,000 active and pending patents worldwide.
Seasonality
The company’s sales are affected by seasonality, with the first quarter generally showing the lowest revenue levels in the year, and the third or fourth quarter (year ended December 31, 2024) historically generating higher amounts of revenues, partly as a result of the seasonal dynamics for smartphone applications. The company also sells certain products to key customers pursuant to frame contracts. These contracts allow the company to schedule production capacity in advance and allow customers to manage their inventory levels consistent with just-in-time principles while shortening the cycle times required to produce ordered products.
Environmental, Health, and Safety Matters
The company is certified to be in compliance with quality standard ISO 9001 on a company-wide basis. It implements the highest standards across its manufacturing activities and supply chain. The company’s major manufacturing sites are ISO 14001 (environment), ISO 14064 (greenhouse gas emissions), and ISO 50001 (energy) certified, and EMAS validated.
The company has implemented a robust health and safety management system throughout its operations. The company’s main manufacturing sites are ISO 45001 certified.
As the company is subject to its reporting over the financial year 2024 to an obligation to publish non-financial information pursuant to Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 amending Directive 2013/34/EU regarding disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups (the ‘Non-Financial Reporting Directive’), the EU Taxonomy Regulation is applicable to it, and subsequently, it must disclose information on how and to what extent the company’s activities are associated with economic activities that qualify as environmentally sustainable.
History
STMicroelectronics N.V. was founded in 1987. The company was incorporated in 1987 under the laws of the Netherlands.
