• is the third largest semiconductor supplier to the automotive industry.¹
• supplies chips to all the major auto makers worldwide. All top-ten automotive OEMs in the world are among ST’s large customers.
• is the largest supplier of automotive application-specific chips¹, which are a key component in car electronics.
• is the leading semiconductor supplier to the Automotive Infotainment segment.¹
• is the world’s leading supplier for digital satellite radio1 and is ready to support all major international standards for terrestrial digital radio, including DAB/DMB, Digital Radio Mondiale and HD Radio.
• has developed and industrialized market-leading smart-power technologies, such as BCD (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) and VIPower, which enable effective integration of control and communication with power functions on the same chip.
• is the leading provider of power-management chips, an area where there is a growing need to manage the electric-power demands of vehicles as innovators develop and introduce sophisticated multimedia and information systems. iSuppli estimates that automotive power-management chip revenues will grow at a CAGR of 8.0 percent, rising from $3.0 billion in 2007 to $4.4 billion in 2012.
• is a leading provider of chips that enable safety electronics in automobiles, another fast-growing area. ST’s chips are widely used in systems that perform occupant detection-classification, collision avoidance, lane departure warning and blind-spot monitoring, as well as traditional applications like Airbag and ABS. ST is the #1 supplier of the door-zone electronics and a leading provider in junction- box applications.
• addresses car-radio, GPS, navigation and telematics, in-car connectivity (hands-free/audio streaming), media devices for audio and video playback, mobile TV, and rear-seat entertainment with its comprehensive hardware and software platform for navigation and infotainment applications.
• is a leading supplier of automotive microcontrollers based on a common industry-standard 8-bit core with embedded Flash memory. These field-proven products meet the stringent requirements of the automotive industry in terms of product offer, device robustness, quality level and service performance.
• has pooled its strengths in a Joint Development Program with Freescale to accelerate the market penetration of PowerPC microcontrollers – the leading 32-bit embedded architecture in Automotive.

Automotive Electronics

• According to Strategy Analytics, the worldwide automotive semiconductor market is forecast to rise from $18 billion in 2008 to more than $25 billion through 2012, an annual growth rate of 9%.

1 iSuppli, Strategy Analytics, May 2008

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