New strategies, new goals, new products, analyzing STMicroelectronics' industrial layout ideas

Thanks to the rapid development of IoT applications, the automotive industry has made a leap forward. According to a survey, by 2025, every newly produced car will have a certain degree of mobile Internet functionality. In addition, with the improvement of safety awareness among governments and the public, ADAS technology has rapidly become popular, which has also brought a broader market to semiconductor manufacturers. The automotive industry is setting off a war for autonomous driving platforms.

As one of the world's largest semiconductor companies, STMicroelectronics (ST), which ranks fifth in the automotive semiconductor market, certainly will not miss this feast. It is reported that ST's revenue in the third quarter of 2018 was US$2.52 billion, an increase of 18.1% year-on-year. ST has a total of about 45,500 employees worldwide, about 7,400 R&D technicians, and has 11 manufacturing bases. ST currently focuses on four major terminal markets: automobiles, industry, personal electronics, and communications computers and peripherals.

At this investor conference, ST showed us new weapons. From the new plans for ADAS and industrial fields, we can see that ST may become a semiconductor supplier capable of shaking the entire market.

Let's take a look at what new initiatives, new ideas and new weapons ST has at this conference:

1. ST focuses on four major terminal markets and has promising prospects 

   
   

2. IGBT technology will become the main force, ST will catch up 

   
   

3. ST launches SiC offensive to boost electric vehicle development 

   
   

4. FD-SOI remains popular, ST enters the market with full force 

   
   

5. STMicroelectronics' ambition to enter 5G has never disappeared