STMicroelectronics has become the first European company to join the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG) industry consortium at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Group is an exclusive industry consortium that was founded in the 1980s to support Microsystems Technology Laboratories infrastructure and provide direction to the MTL research and educational objectives in consultation with the faculty.

As one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies and supplier of embedded System-on-Chip ICs for use in communications, automotive, consumer and computer peripheral markets, STMicroelectronics is engaged in a wide range of research programmes conducted with leading universities and research institutes around the world.

The significance of this latest collaboration was highlighted by Elio Guidetti, director for ultra low power platforms, advanced system technology at STMicroelectronics, who said, “By joining MTL, ST will be able to push its research efforts to fully exploit ‘near-threshold’ technology and reach far below the actual power consumption limits of energy-efficient System-on-Chip solutions. This technology can enable the development of an entirely new generation of microcontrollers for wireless sensors and portable medical devices.”