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Accessories

Accessories for smartphones and tablets cover a very rich product range from battery chargers to sophisticated devices to enhance the user experience like smart pens, keyboards, and speakers as well as true wireless headsets and earbuds. Easily syncing with your existing smartphone, these companion devices are creating new trends as they offer multi-device capabilities for ensuring the most seamless, interactive user experience.

Key Challenges

In recent years, we have experienced an increase in the demand for accessories that support multimedia applications and work across several devices.  No longer simple gadgets, these devices are essential to ensure a smooth interaction with smartphones, tablets, and other handhelds as well as easily access a new generation of personalized web services.

In addition to requiring a wide set of technologies including multiple wireless connectivity protocols, the latest accessories include MEMS sensors for real-time health and fitness monitoring as well as tracking environmental conditions. Of course, efficient power management architectures are also necessary to ensure an extended battery life.

Our Products and Solutions

As a creator of unique technologies and products that provide our customers the best solutions to address their challenges and opportunities, ST provides a wide selection of ultra-low-power STM32 microcontrollers, power management ICs, analog devices and wireless charging ICs for all major standards and technologies.

In addition to having the widest range of MEMS sensors covering a full spectrum of environmental monitoring and motion sensing applications and ESD protection devices, we offer an extensive portfolio of NFC tag and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity solutions.

Moreover, ST provides a comprehensive set of both hardware and software development tools and other developer resources to help you reduce development time and costs while gaining market share thanks to a shorter time to market.