Profile Specialists in sensors
ON Semiconductor has, through acquisition, become a major player in the machine vision market, as Beth Harlen discovers
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Vince Hopkin, vice president at ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor’s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona
ith headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, ON Semiconductor began trading following a spin-
off from Motorola in 1999. At the time, the US company focused its attention on discrete small signal and power components, analogue ICs, and standard and advanced logic ICs. During the next nine years, the company completed six acquisitions – including that of AMI Semiconductor in 2008. At that time, AMI Semiconductor had a sensor group that mainly revolved around linear sensors, light sensing products, and proximity sensors. Tis 2008 acquisition marked the
beginning of ON Semiconductor’s image strategy; a strategy that eventually led to the purchase of the Cypress image sensor
business unit for approximately $31.4 million in 2011. Cypress’ broad portfolio of high-performance and high-speed custom and standard CMOS image sensors were used in medical x-ray imaging, multi- megapixel digital cinematography, linear and two dimensional (2D) barcode imaging, and machine vision. By integrating this portfolio into its own offering, ON Semiconductor cemented its position as a supplier of CMOS image sensor products. More recently, the company expanded its
customer base with the agreement to acquire Truesense Imaging from Platinum Equity for $92 million. Phase one of integrating that business – which was previously known as Kodak Image Sensor Solutions – has been completed. While many of the products in the portfolio are CCD-based as opposed to CMOS, high-performance, high-speed applications are targeted within machine vision and traffic. As well as ensuring ON Semiconductor now has access to proven CCD and CMOS image sensor technology, the acquisition has added more than 300 customers in its targeted industrial markets, and added six-inch fab and back-end capabilities to its portfolio. Just a few months ago, the company
also completed its purchase of Aptina Imaging for approximately $400 million in cash. Commenting on this latest move, Vince Hopkin, vice president at ON Semiconductor, explained that ‘ON Semiconductor now has a complete portfolio of imaging products that span from lower cost, high volume imagers all the way up to the very high-resolution, highest speed in the industry imaging sensors for cameras.’ Specifically, the Aptina acquisition
provides accelerated growth for ON Semiconductor in the industrial and automotive markets, with almost no overlap within the latter’s existing portfolio. ON Semiconductor now employs
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