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EM Microelectronic

Swiss semiconductor manufactuer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5323653
Source-derived summary

EM Microelectronic, based in Marin, La Tène near Neuchâtel in Switzerland, is a developer and semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra low power, low voltage integrated circuits for battery-operated and field-powered applications in consumer, automotive and industrial areas. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group.

History

EM began as a division of Ebauches Electroniques SA and was founded in 1975. In August 2022, they partnered up with Exeger, a manufacturer of solar cells.

Subsidiaries

EM Microelectronic has a design center at its headquarters in Marin, in the French speaking part of Switzerland near the city of Neuchâtel.

EM has subsidiaries and additional design centers:

EM Microelectronic - US Inc., located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., is a subsidiary of EM Microelectronic.

ASICentrum s.r.o. is a design center located in Prague, Czech Republic. It is involved in the design of digital, analog and mixed-signal ICs.

Technology

EM Microelectronic specialises in the design and production of ultra low power, low voltage integrated circuits for battery-operated and field-powered applications in consumer, automotive and industrial products.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “EM Microelectronic” as swiss semiconductor manufactuer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Microelectronic, Swiss and semiconductor can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as swiss semiconductor manufactuer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5323653. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from EM Microelectronic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.