Major chip players are in Provence
STMicroelectronics
The world’s 5th largest semiconductor manufacturer, STMicroelectronics has a plant in Rousset with a 8-inch production facility and an electrical test unit for France. It employs nearly 2,700 people. Rousset 8 produces 350,000 8-inch silicon wafers per year, or about 2 billion chips in 8,000 square meters of clean room.
STMicroelectronics Rousset also employs over 400 design and R&D engineers and technicians contributing to the development of new products, particularly in the area of EEPROM, Smartcards and Microcontrollers.
Near the Rousset plant, STUniversity, STMicroelectronics corporate university, trains nearly 4,000 executives each year, from the company’s sites worldwide. STUniversity has established close partnerships with french and foreign institutions of higher education,
Atmel
Atmel Corporation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, integrated logic circuits and mixed signal ICs, and nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete microcontroller based system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, automotive, security, communications and computing markets.
The Rousset site, with a production capacity of 6,000 silicon 200mm-wafers a week, employs 1,400 people.
Gemalto
Gemalto provides solutions for integrated digital security, designed to make personal digital interactions more convenient, safe and enjoyable. Their activities range from the development of software applications through design and production of digital security devices such as smart cards, SIM cards, electronic passports, and tokens, to the management and deployment of customer-oriented services. Gemalto has 2 locations in Provence and employs over 2,100 people.
