About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics designs and manufactures semiconductors including microcontrollers, sensors, power devices and silicon carbide products used in automotive, industrial and consumer electronics. It operates its own fabs as well as using outside foundries. The company was formed in 1987 by the merger of Italy's SGS Microelettronica and France's Thomson Semiconducteurs, and took the STMicroelectronics name in 1998. Its operational headquarters is in Plan-les-Ouates near Geneva, Switzerland, and its shares are listed in New York, Paris and Milan.
STMicroelectronics was founded in 1987 and is based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. It is listed under ASICs, Custom Silicon, CPUs & RISC-V. Its shares trade as STM on NYSE.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
- ASICs
What STMicroelectronics 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.
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
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