Elmos Semiconductor SE is a German manufacturer of semiconductor products headquartered in Dortmund, Germany. Elmos supplies automotive application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
History 1984 - Founded in Dortmund, Germany 1985 - 32 employees, 0.4 M DM turnover, Installation of 4" Wafer Fab in Dortmund 1994 - DIN ISO 9001 certificate 1998 - 460 employees, 140 M DM turnover. Complete supply from new 6" line 1999 - IPO to new market, Frankfurt 2001 - 630 employees, 107 million Euro turnover Acquisition of Eurasem (Packaging, NL) and SMI (MEMS, USA) 2002 - TS16949 2005 - Opened 8" wafer fab in Duisburg as second production line 2020 - Conversion of legal form into a Societas Europaea 2022 - media reports about possible Chinese takeover which the German government eventually vetoed
Silicon Microstructures acquisition and sale to TE Connectivity Silicon Microstructures, Inc.(SMI) was founded in 1991 as a commercial source of high-performance silicon pressure sensors, including Microelectromechanical systems sensors, and accelerometers. Its first product was a silicon sensor for very low-pressure usage.
Elmos Semiconductor acquired SMI in March 2001 from OSI Systems. SMI began production on higher performance, system level sensors and microstructures, wireless, RF and bus addressable microstructures.
In August 2002, SMI acquired the IC Sensors' wafer fabrication operations and wafer R&D group and relocated to Milpitas, California. The following year, Silicon Microstructures undertook a significant and complete wafer fabrication upgrade to expand the facility for full 6" wafer handling. This facility processed primarily 6 inch wafers and has advanced technical capabilities including deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) and plasma enhanced fusion bonding.
In 2019, Elmos announced the sale of Silicon Microstructures to TE Connectivity, and the subsequent closure of Elmos Group’s micromechanics division.
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External links Elmos Semiconductor website Silicon Microstructures website