Business Description

purpose and specialized mixed-signal microcontrollers, microprocessors, analog, FPGA, data center, networking, and memory products. In July 2024, we entered the 64-bit mixed-signal microprocessor market furthering our expansion beyond 32-bit architecture. Our synergistic product portfolio empowers disruptive growth trends, including AI/ML, data centers, edge computing and IoT, E-mobility, networking and connectivity, and sustainability in key end markets such as automotive, aerospace and defense, communications, consumer appliances, data centers and computing, and industrial. Industry Background Competitive pressures require OEMs to expand product functionality and provide differentiation while maintaining or reducing cost. To address these requirements, manufacturers often use integrated circuit-based embedded control systems that enable them to: • differentiate their products • replace less efficient electromechanical control devices • reduce the number of components in their system • add product functionality • reduce the system level energy consumption • make systems safer to operate • reduce the consumption of natural resources • connect their products to other devices • add security to their products • decrease time to market for their products • significantly reduce product cost Embedded control systems have been incorporated into thousands of products and subassemblies in a wide variety of applications and markets worldwide, including: • actuators • applications requiring touch buttons, touch screens and graphical user interfaces • automotive access control • automotive comfort, safety, advanced driver assistance systems, networking, information and entertainment applications • avionics • communication infrastructure systems • consumer electronics • data center solutions • defense and military hardware • electric vehicles • handheld tools 5 Table of Contents • home and building automation • industrial automation • IP routers and Ethernet switches • large and small home appliances • medical devices • motor controls units • portable computers and accessories • power supplies • residential and commercial security systems • robotics • satellites and spacecrafts • scale-up and scale-across systems for AI infrastructure • smart home, IoT and AI/ML edge devices • smart meters and energy monitoring • storage and server systems • user interface and control panels • video surveillance systems • wireless communication Embedded control systems typically incorporate a mixed-signal microcontroller, microprocessor or FPGA as the principal active, and sometimes sole, component. A mixed-signal microcontroller is a self-contained computer-on-a-chip consisting of a central processing unit, often with on-board non-volatile program memory for program storage, random access memory for data storage and various analog and digital input/output peripheral capabilities. In addition to the mixed-signal microcontroller, a complete embedded control system often incorporates application-specific software, various analog, power, mixed-signal, timing, connectivity, security and non-volatile memory components such as EEPROMs and Flash memory. Mixed-signal microcontrollers are primarily available in 8-bit through 32-bit architectures. 8-bit mixed-signal microcontrollers remain very cost-effective and easy to use for a wide range of high-volume embedded control applications and, as a result, continue to represent a significant portion of the overall mixed-signal microcontroller market. 16-bit and 32-bit mixed-signal microcontrollers provide higher performance and functionality, and are generally found in more complex embedded control applications. FPGAs are programmable integrated circuits that are used to implement complex logic functions and can be re-programmed at any time, allowing for multiple implementations and revisions during or after the customer system is manufactured. Some versions of FPGAs also include a mixed-signal microcontroller or microprocessor core to provide additional system on chip functionality to compute intensive tasks. Microprocessors integrate 32-bit (or above) central processing units (CPUs) with various high performance peripherals, such as communications and graphics, and execute code from external memory, typically dynamic random access memory.…