Beyond auto parts, next-gen mobility requires partnerships
Flex delivers product lifecycle services that empower brands across industries to innovate with speed, resilience, and scale. They bring their 50+ year advanced manufacturing history and expertise to their automotive business, where they are designing and building the latest innovations driving next-generation mobility, from compute platforms for software-defined vehicles to power electronics for hybrids and EVs. One secret to their success? Encouraging a collaborative ecosystem with longstanding partnerships, such as their collaboration with ST to fuel groundbreaking advancements in areas like size and efficiency of power electronics.
Challenge
- To drive progress in next-generation mobility by finding a collaborative semiconductor supplier who can balance innovation and reliability
Solution
- A long-term collaboration between Flex and ST
- ST's extensive portfolio of automotive-grade solutions to help Flex design and build products for automakers around the world
Impact
- Support Flex’s objective to provide innovations that enable global automakers to deliver next-generation mobility products with greater speed and resilience
- Improve automaker time-to-market through hardware design platforms featuring the latest technologies
- Accelerate industry-wide innovation with unique integrated partnerships
What’s inside Flex's winning formula?
Flex's footprint in the automotive industry is vast, with products featured on hundreds of unique vehicle platforms and a clientele of more than 100 automotive customers. Some of Flex’s most exciting recent offerings are custom power electronics solutions to enable next-generation mobility.
Over the years, ST experts have been dedicated to supporting Flex' quest for higher power conversion and efficiency through continuous advancements in silicon technologies. More recently, ST's expertise in silicon carbide, a wide-bandgap material, has been an integral part of Flex’s power electronics advancements. With devices optimized for electrification, ST’s automotive-grade microcontrollers have also played a key role towards greater efficiency, and safety in power systems. These solutions help Flex design higher power density products without sacrificing performance.
“
Our work with ST is an example of how Flex partners across the ecosystem to enable automakers to launch
leading mobility products with
greater reliability, resilience, and speed.”
Mike Thoeny, President, Automotive, Flex
How Flex's open ecosystem shapes innovation
Success in automotive hinges on effective integration. Innovation is no different for Flex. For years, Flex and ST have built a strong foundation of trust, with their teams working closely together. ST teams regularly share their roadmaps, partnering with Flex to accelerate innovation in the automotive industry. Together, we are building a next-generation ecosystem founded on deep collaboration, where automakers and partners contribute their respective strengths and work together from the early stages of development to drive the future of mobility.
“
ST’s silicon carbide expertise
has made them a significant partner
in the development of our next-gen power electronics.”
Andreas Heim, VP of Engineering, Automotive, Flex
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