About Bosch Semiconductors
This record covers the semiconductor business of Robert Bosch GmbH, a German engineering and technology group, rather than a separate company. The business develops and makes chips for vehicles and other products, including MEMS sensors (tiny mechanical sensing structures built on silicon) and power devices. In 2023 Bosch acquired TSI Semiconductors, a California maker of silicon carbide power devices. The Bosch group was founded in Stuttgart on 15 November 1886 and is 94 percent owned by the charitable Robert Bosch Stiftung.
Bosch Semiconductors was founded in 1886 and is based in Reutlingen, Germany. It is listed under ASICs, Custom Silicon, Edge Computing.
Compute Technologies
- Automotive Chips
- MEMS Sensors
- Power ICs
What Bosch Semiconductors works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
Also in Germany
Elmos Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, Siltronic, Gemesys, X-FAB
