MELEXIS N.V.

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URL: www.melexis.com

Melexis USA

41 Locke Road

Concord, NH 03301 USA

Tel: (603)223-2362

Fax: (603)223-9614

GENERAL CONTACTS

Sales: sales_usa@melexis.com  

FAST FACTS

Classification: IC, IP, Public

Employees:

Corporate headquarters is located in Belgium. R&D centers are in Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Ukraine. Probe and test facilities are located in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria. Melexis also maintains a worldwide applications support network.

Melexis achieved its revenue growth in 2003 as a result of its concentration in the automotive market - specifically automotive safety applications. There are numerous new applications in the automotive industry that have been made possible with inexpensive micromachine chip technology, which Melexis has. These applications include indoor cabin pollution monitoring, night vision and weather vision infrared windshields, automatic tire pressure monitoring (which has been legislated as mandatory in several countries), gyroscopes for electronic stability control (which has been mandated for automobiles in several European countries) and many others too numerous to list for this report. Melexis has been focusing on chips for new automobile cable standards. The cable harness, which connects the electronic components together in the car, has been a major issue with automotive companies for years.  There may also be applications for Melexis to apply to airplanes and other transportation vehicles.

Melexis N/V at the end of its 2003 year had over 70 patents filed. This is up considerable from the 41 applications it had at the end of its 2002 year. In the United States patent office, as of September 2004, it had 18 patents published. The 2004 patents pertain to Infrared Sensor technology, an important technology related to micromachines.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Roland Duchatelet, Chairman of the Board

Rudi De Winter, Vice Chairman of the Board and Managing Director, CEO

Françoise Chombar, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer

Steve Hix, Director

Simon Middelhoek, Director

Lucien De Schamphelaere, Director

MAIN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PRODUCTS / TECHNOLOGY

ASIC: Mixed Signal,  Custom RF

Image Processing: CMOS Image Sensors for Automtotive Applications

Automobile: High Voltage Ignition, LIN Microcontroller

Industrial: Fab Drivers

Microcontrollers: Microcontrollers With Sensor Interfaces

Micromachines: Accelerometers, Gyroscopes

Mixed Signal:

RFID: Radio Frequency Identification

Sensors: Pressure Sensors, Optoelectronic, Sensor Interface, Tire Pressure

Telemedicine:

Thermometers: Infrared Thermometers

Thermal Infrared Image Processing