Provence Mobile Valley

Provence Mobile Valley is home to numerous major semiconductor manufacturers:

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.
www.st.com

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.
www.gemalto.com

Inside Secure

Inside Secure is the leader in open-standard contactless payment and near field communication (NFC) semiconductors and software able to equip new applications for payment, transit, access control, and electronic identification.

Inside Secure microprocessor-based intelligent platforms are flexible enough to be integrated into smart cards, mobile phones and other consumer devices or accessories. They support a wide range of innovative contactless applications that provide incomparable ease of use to consumers.

Inside has now delivered more than 250 million contactless platforms to customers throughout the world including the leading manufacturers of payment cards and mobile telephones, and leading integrators and financial institutions With a portfolio of 55 patent families (including many key patents in the field of NFC), the company has played an important role in the development and deployment of NFC and contactless technology. Inside Secure headquarters are located in Aix-en-Provence.

In 2011, Inside Secure signed a contract with Intel for the supply of NFC controllers. This agreement between the Aix-en-Provence SME and the American giant will provide the nascent NFC Industry with an access to mainstream markets.
www.insidesecure.com

Provence Mobile Valley is home to numerous enterprises specializing in secure communicating solution software:

Alcineo
Alcineo made the choice of setting up in Provence next door to the smart card industry’s major players.
Alcineo specializes in the development of embedded security software for smart cards. The company’s software applications are designed to work with both contact card readers and contactless terminals, including those using NFC technology.
www.alcineo.com

Editag
A "product" of the Meyreuil Innovating Enterprise Incubator, Editag produces secure solutions based on RFID and Internet technologies.
The technological solutions provided by Editag have a wide variety of applications, including:
- Art: artwork cataloging, inventorying and safeguarding;
- Construction: securing construction sites and materials stores;
- Wine-making: ensuring traceability of agricultural products.
www.editag.eu

Neowave
Neowave is acknowledged as an expert in the fields of secure integrated circuits, smart cards, embedded software and secure transactions.
A leader in the design of "smart objects" (its core activity), Neowave markets a new small, communicating personal device with a thumb drive format called Weneo. The device combines smart card security with RFID/NFC contactless features, PC and Internet connectivity and storage capacity.
Using this new smart object, a user can access a wide range of services in different fields, from public transport (travel card top-up) and banking (contactless transactions) to the workplace (access control) and health.
www.neowave.fr

Provence Mobile Valley is an established region for media production, including mobile media:
-    The leading location for filming in Southern Europe;
-    IMGA,  the mobile gaming “Oscars” ceremony;
-    WebFest, the festival dedicated to web series, including for mobile platforms;
-    LDmobile, Cellcast: leading start-ups in the field of online advertizing;
-    Lexis Numerique, a pioneer in transmedia video games.