1 ON Semiconductor appears across 1 article in the last 90 days, most recently in Applied Materials and Intel Collaborate on EPIC Center Work (Oct 2026).
Who is ON Semiconductor?
ON Semiconductor (onsemi) is a semiconductor manufacturer that supplies power, analog, sensor, and connectivity devices for automotive, industrial, cloud, and other electronic systems.
- Power semiconductors and power management devices for automotive, industrial, and energy infrastructure applications (power electronics).
- Image sensors and other sensing components for automotive, industrial automation, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems (sensing and imaging).
- Analog, mixed-signal, and interface ICs used in power conversion, signal conditioning, and connectivity (analog and mixed-signal ICs).
- Components supporting electric vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, and factory automation platforms (automotive and industrial electronics).
- Semiconductor solutions designed for data center, 5G, and cloud-edge hardware platforms (cloud and communications infrastructure).
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ON Semiconductor, which also does business as onsemi, provides semiconductor components and platforms used in automotive, industrial, cloud, communications, and consumer electronics. Enterprise and institutional engineering teams use its portfolio to implement power conversion, control, sensing, and connectivity functions within larger hardware architectures. The company focuses on areas such as vehicle electrification, advanced driver-assistance systems, industrial automation, and cloud infrastructure, supplying building-block components that OEMs and system integrators embed into end products.
In enterprise and industrial environments, ON Semiconductor’s power devices (power electronics) are used for high-efficiency power conversion, Power Factor Correction (PFC), and motor control. These include MOSFETs, IGBTs, gate drivers, rectifiers, and related power management ICs that support architectures for on-board chargers, DC/DC conversion, inverters, and uninterruptible power supplies. The company also supplies wide-bandgap devices such as silicon carbide power components (power electronics) for use in Electric Vehicle (EV) traction inverters, fast-charging infrastructure, and industrial drives, where higher voltage, higher frequency, and higher temperature operation are required.
The sensing and imaging portfolio (sensing and imaging) includes CMOS image sensors and other sensor products used in automotive cameras, machine vision systems, intelligent transportation, and security and surveillance. These devices interface with common automotive and industrial networking and compute platforms, feeding perception and analytics pipelines for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), driver monitoring, and robotics. ON Semiconductor’s sensors are integrated into systems that rely on protocols and interfaces such as MIPI for camera connectivity and standard high-speed serial links for data transfer to domain controllers or edge processors.
ON Semiconductor also offers analog, mixed-signal, timing, and interface ICs (analog and mixed-signal ICs) that support signal conditioning, protection, clock generation, and level shifting. These are used across automotive ECUs, industrial controllers, telecom and networking cards, and consumer devices. Connectivity-related components provide interfaces between subsystems and help implement architectures based on widely used buses and protocols in embedded design.
From a marketplace categorization perspective, ON Semiconductor fits into several taxonomy buckets: discrete and power semiconductors (power electronics); sensors and imaging components (sensing and imaging); analog and mixed-signal ICs (analog and mixed-signal ICs); and automotive and industrial semiconductor solutions (automotive and industrial electronics). Enterprise architects and hardware planners consider ON Semiconductor within vendor sets that supply the underlying silicon for EV platforms, ADAS, motor control, building automation, renewable energy systems, data center power delivery, and 5G or broadband infrastructure, where efficiency, thermal behavior, and long-term supply are central selection factors.
Our description of ON Semiconductor. Updated December 2025.
