LG. Philips Displays, a joint venture with South Korea's LG Electronics, is a leading supplier of cathode ray tubes (CRTs) for televisions and desktop monitors. By combining the complementary strengths of the two companies, this 50/50 partnership has created a cost-effective offering in the mature CRT market. The company is currently restructuring to cut overcapacity and reduce its operational costs.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, provides the industry's leading process technology and the foundry industry's largest portfolio of IP, design tools and reference flows. Philips, with 19% of its outstanding common shares, entered the partnership to secure a strategic supply of wafers, exchange technological and manufacturing expertise, and share the risk of capital.
Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company (SSMC) is a joint venture established by Philips (48%), the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (32%) and the Economic Development Board of Singapore (20%). The venture secures Philips a strategic supply of wafers. It has also created a state-of-the-art wafer fabrication facility in Singapore capable of producing semiconductor wafers with advanced sub-micron process technologies.
Lumileds Lighting, a 50/50 joint venture between Philips and Agilent Technologies, unites the complementary strengths and positions of the two companies so that they can successfully develop the market for LED-based lighting products. The product portfolio has been extended from LED traffic signal products to include such other applications as automotive, signaling, contour lighting and signs, illumination and LCD backlighting.
Atos Origin is a leading international IT services provider and supplier of business consulting and technology integration services. It provides integrated solutions to large clients in carefully targeted industry sectors in over 30 countries. As a result of Atos' announcement in 2003 that it had agreed to buy Schlumberger Sema, Philips' stake in Atos Origin will decrease to 32%.
InterTrust Technologies Corporation holds a key Digital Rights Management (DRM) patent portfolio of secure digital distribution technologies, including digital media platforms, web services and enterprise infrastructure. In 2003, Philips and Sony acquired InterTrust to ensure wider access to its intellectual property rights and enable DRM-protected distribution of digital content for content owners, service providers, device makers, consumers and enterprises.
FEI Company is the leading supplier of Structural Process Management TM solutions to technology leaders in semiconductors, data storage and biological structures. Philips owns 26% of its outstanding shares and, in conjunction with the Rabobank and Société Générale, recently set up ventures to provide US and European financing for the purchase of the full range of Philips Medical Systems diagnostic imaging equipment.
Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) designs and markets true single chip radio devices for the global short range radio communications market. Its BlueCore™ family product range provides cost-effective solutions for Bluetooth applications. BlueCore™ architecture combines baseband DSP, radio and microcontroller functions
E-Ink's electronic ink display technology helps unleash the full power of the connected world by uniquely combining a paper-like reading experience with the ability to access information anytime, anywhere. E Ink's technology delivers the look, form and utility of paper encompassing broad design freedom, manufacturing flexibility and the ultimate in readability and portability
Webraska is the worldwide provider of wireless navigation, mapping and traffic information services and technologies for telecom operators and car manufacturers.
TimeSys is a key technology provider to the communications infrastructure, the Internet and the corporate intranet. Its products create an open software technology foundation for high-volume embedded systems that need to provide guaranteed Real-Time Quality of Service (QoS).
Alien Technology uses its high volume roll-to-roll process - based on a revolutionary means of packaging NanoBlock® IC custom circuits - to produce low cost radio frequency tags that use a small integrated wireless circuit to identify objects remotely.
Intellon Corporation is a leading semiconductor supplier of communication solutions for networking with No New Wires™. The company's PowerPacket technology has established it as an innovator in powerline networking.
Digital 5's (D5) groundbreaking consumer electronic networking technology enables Consumer Electronics ODMs/OEMs to deliver products that let users enjoy the audio, pictures and video content stored on their PCs.
ALSI - a spin-off from Philips - has developed a laser technology to separate wafers and plans to replace the current saw-based standard.
Mysticom delivers semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and chipsets to the fast-growing high-speed communications market. Customers integrate SIP functional blocks - called cores - into their Systems-on-Chip (SoC) integrated circuits.
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