STMicroelectronics is the world’s fifth largest semiconductor company with net revenues of US$8.51 billion in 2009.

The Company’s sales are well balanced among the semiconductor industry’s major high-growth sectors (approximate percentage of ST’s sales in 2009⁽¹⁾): Communications (40%), Consumer (11%), Computer (13%), Automotive (12%), Industrial (8%) and Distribution (16%).

According to the latest industry data from iSuppli, ST holds market leadership in many fields. For example, the Company is the leading producer of application-specific analog chips and power conversion devices. It is the #1 supplier of semiconductors for the Industrial market, set-top box applications, and MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) chips for portable and consumer devices, including game controllers and smart phones. ST also occupies leading positions in fields as varied as automotive integrated circuits (#3), chips for computer peripherals (#3), and the rapidly expanding market for MEMS overall (#5).

Product Portfolio
ST aims to be the leader in multimedia convergence and power applications, offering one of the world’s broadest product portfolios, including application-specific products containing a large proprietary IP (Intellectual Property) content and multi-segment products that range from discrete devices to high-performance microcontrollers, secure smart card chips and MEMS devices.

The Company provides solutions for a wide array of Digital Consumer applications, with a particular focus on set-top boxes, digital TVs and digital audio, including radio. In the Computer Peripherals arena, ST provides leading solutions in data storage, printing, visual display units, power management for PC motherboards, and power supplies. A wide range of ST’s ASSPs (Application Specific Standard Products) power sophisticated Automotive systems such as engine control, vehicle safety equipment, door modules, and in-car infotainment  The Company also supplies industrial integrated circuits (IC) for factory automation systems, chips for lighting, battery chargers and power supplies, as well as chips for advanced Secure Access applications.

ST pioneered and continues to refine the use of platform-based design methodologies for complex ICs in demanding applications such as mobile multimedia, set-top boxes and computer peripherals. The balanced portfolio approach allows ST to address the needs of all microelectronics users, from global strategic customers for whom ST is the partner of choice, for major System-on-Chip (SoC) projects to local enterprises that need fully-supported general-purpose devices and solutions.

To maximize the benefit of scale that is becoming increasingly important in some semiconductor markets, ST has recently architected the emergence of two new industry leaders. In the memory field, ST, Intel and Francisco Partners formed a joint venture, Numonyx, dedicated to providing non-volatile memory solutions, for a wide variety of consumer and industrial applications. ST holds a 48% share in Numonyx. In the wireless arena, ST and NXP combined their key wireless semiconductor operations in a joint venture; ST subsequently bought NXP’s minority stake in the venture and merged its wireless operations with Ericsson Mobile Platforms to create ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture focusing on semiconductors and platforms for mobile applications.

Research & Development and Manufacturing
Since its creation, ST has maintained an unwavering commitment to R&D and in 2009 spent US$2.37B in R&D, which is approximately 28% of the Company’s 2009 revenues and includes the R&D activities related to ST-Ericsson, as consolidated by ST.

ST is one of the industry’s most innovative companies; it owns close to 19,000 patents and pending patent applications and in 2009 filed 737 new patent applications around the world.

ST’s process technology portfolio includes advanced CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) logic including embedded memory variants, mixed-signal, analog and power processes. In advanced CMOS, ST is a partner in the IBM consortium for the development of next-generation process technologies, including 32nm and 22nm CMOS process development, design enablement and advanced research adapted to the manufacturing of 300mm silicon wafers. ST and IBM also cooperate at ST’s Crolles 300mm facility in the development of value-added CMOS derivative SoC technologies.

ST has a worldwide network of front-end (wafer fabrication) and back-end (assembly and test and packaging) plants. ST’s principal wafer fabs are presently located in Agrate Brianza and Catania (Italy), Crolles, Rousset and Tours (France), and Singapore. The wafer fabs are complemented by highly efficient assembly and test facilities located in China, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco and Singapore.

Alliances
From its birth, ST has established a worldwide network of strategic alliances, including product development with key customers, technology development with customers and other semiconductor manufacturers, and equipment- and CAD-development alliances with major suppliers. These industrial partnerships are complemented by a wide range of research programs conducted with leading universities and research institutes around the world, in addition to playing a key role in Europe’s advanced technology research programs such as CATRENE (Cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe on NanoElectronics), a successor to MEDEA+, and industry initiatives such as ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council).

Sustainable Excellence
STMicroelectronics was one of the first global industrial companies to recognize the importance of environmental responsibility, its initial efforts beginning in the early 1990s. Since then ST has made outstanding progress in reducing energy and water consumption and CO2 emissions per product unit. Over the past 15 years, the Company’s sites have received more than 100 awards for excellence in all areas of Corporate Responsibility, from quality to corporate governance, social issues and environmental protection.

ST is a member of the key sustainability indices DJSI (Dow Jones Sustainability Index), FTSE4Good and ASPI (Advanced Sustainability Performance Index), and its corporate responsibility policy is detailed in its Principles for Sustainable Excellence ⁽²⁾, while its performance in terms of economic, social, environment, health & safety, product responsibility and supply chain issues is reported in detail in its annual Corporate Responsibility Report ⁽³⁾.

Facts and Figures
STMicroelectronics was created in 1987 by the merger of SGS Microelettronica of Italy and Thomson Semiconducteurs of France and has been publicly traded since 1994; its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: STM), on Euronext Paris, and on Borsa Italiana. Since its formation, ST has grown faster than the semiconductor industry as a whole and it has been one of the world’s Top Five semiconductor suppliers since 2005.
The group totals approx. 50,000 employees, 16 advanced research and development units, 39 design and application centers, 13 main manufacturing sites and 78 sales offices in 36 countries.
Corporate Headquarters, as well as the headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, (EMEA) are in Geneva. The Company’s Americas Headquarters are in Carrollton (Texas); those for Greater China and South Asia are based in Shanghai; and Japanese and Korean operations are headquartered in Tokyo.

(1) based on the full-year 2009 revenues that included revenues from ST-NXP Wireless for the month of January 2009 and ST-Ericsson starting February 2009
(2) http://www.st.com/stonline/company/cr/2006/social/pdf/principles.pdf
(3) http://www.st.com/stonline/company/cr/reports/index.htm

 Updated January 2010