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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

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


Inside Contactless

Inside Contactless 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 Contactless 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 Contactless headquarters are located in Aix-en-Provence.
www.insidecontactless.com


Tagsys RFID

The world leader in RFID infrastructure for tracking objects, Tagsys designs, manufactures and markets systems for item-level tracking throughout the supply chain. They have also designed special labels and traceability systems for medical research laboratories.

With over 200 million RFID tags and 90,000 RFID reader systems deployed to 500 customers all over the world, Tagsys has a proven track record worldwide of delivering reliable, accurate and secure systems.
www.tagsysrfid.com