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Corporate Technology

 

Corporate investments and others

 

Design

Corporate Technology

 

Corporate Technology is an innovation powerhouse with organizations dedicated to:

 

Emerging businesses

Corporate Technologies operates the Technology Incubator, which makes dedicated investments in promising value propositions.

 

 

Intellectual Property & Standards

Protects and exploits the value of Philips' portfolio of intellectual property rights: 115,000 patent rights, 26,000 trademark registrations, 15,000 design rights and some 1,600-domain name registrations. It has 300 professionals located in 26 offices around the world and also licenses world-class technologies and participates actively in new standards.

 

Research

Generates innovations and inventions, supporting Philips' businesses with long-range vision and feeding their innovation pipeline.

 

System integration services

Philips Applied Technologies translates technical ideas into competitive products and cost-efficient manufacturing solutions by integrating new and existing technologies.TASS develops embedded software on demand.

 

 

Corporate investments and others

Assembléon - Veldhoven, Netherlands

Assembléon develops, assembles, markets and distributes a diverse range of Surface Mount Technology placement equipment. Its customers - Original Equipment Manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturers and Contract Equipment Manufacturers - use Assembléon machines to place Surface Mount Devices and other electronic components on printed circuit boards.

Advanced Metrology Systems - Natick, USA

Advanced Metrology Systems (AMS) manufactures high-throughput, non-contact, metal film thickness measurement tools for online monitoring of interconnect layers in advanced semiconductor processes. Its core mission is the development of copper/low-k interconnect metrology solutions.

 Enabling Technologies Group - Eindhoven, Netherlands

Philips Enabling Technologies Group (ETG) operates in the business of system integration of mechatronic (sub)systems and modules for OEMs in the high-tech capital equipment industry. It offers it customers equipment manufacturing, engineering and supply chain management.

High Tech Plastics - Veldhoven, Netherlands

High Tech Plastics develops, manufactures and sells high-specified plastic products ranging from high-end plastic, opto-and opto-mechanical products. It has established a strong global presence in the high tech sectors of electronics, automotive controls, and medical products.

Ommic - Paris, France

OMMIC focuses on innovative III-V Integrated Circuits (ICs) and epitaxial material. Currently, OMMIC is developing new techniques for epitaxial wafer production, advanced PHEMT and MHEMT technologies, as well as innovative circuits for 40 Gb/s and new generation wireless standards.

Philips Optical Storage - Eindhoven, Netherlands

Philips Optical Storage develops and manufactures industry-leading optical storage products for sale through OEM channels worldwide. Its product portfolio includes drives, subassemblies and components related to audio, video, data and gaming playback and rewritable products in CD and DVD technologies.

Power Solutions - Eindhoven, Netherlands

Philips Power Solutions designs, manufactures and sells customized transformers, coils, actuators, and integrated modules (power supplies) for electronic power conversion for the consumer electronics, telecommunications, IT and professional market segments on a global scale.

Philips Speech Recognition Systems - Vienna, Austria

With an entire division focused on developing advanced and easy-to-use speech recognition-based document creation solutions, Philips Speech Recognition Systems has been driving the dictation and speech recognition industry for over half a century.

SpeechMagic, our document creation platform, is widely integrated into vertical IT-systems and dictation applications in hospitals and legal firms. With more than 8,000 installations worldwide, SpeechMagic has established itself as the leading speech recognition software for document creation and transcription.

Design

Design

With some 450 employees in 12 studios around the world, Philips Design is one of the leading design forces in the world today. By providing design solutions that harness technology to improve the quality of people's lives, it creates value for customers both inside and outside Philips.