STMicroelectronics is an independent semiconductor company that focuses on R&D and product design. STMicroelectronics is one of the worlds largest semiconductors companies and has for 18,000 patents. They uses a large source of chip-manufacturing technologies such as FD-SOI CMOS, differentiated imaging technologies, RF-SOI, Bi_CMOS, BCD, Silicon Carbide, VIPower, and MEMS technologies.