In March 2021 the acquisition of the German lighting specialist OSRAM by tech company ams was completed and the new company was named ams OSRAM. Globally, there are over 21,000 employees working for this what is one of the world’s two leading LED lighting manufacturers, with a large R&D and production footprint in Europe and around the globe.
Business basics: Glowing filaments are phasing out. Since the 1980s, the development of semiconductors strongly influenced the product development of all kinds of light-emitting diodes producing visible light (“LEDs”); ultraviolet light (“UVEDs”), and infrared light (“IREDs”). And ams OSRAM is in the middle of that growing business.
The company’s product development includes everything from big high-power LEDs and laser diodes to quantum dots, tiny light emitters only about 3 nanometers across. The range of geometry allows a huge field of application. Digitalization is enabled with new inventions, displays, and arrays. New products make once believed impossible things now possible like the EVIYOS MicroLED, wherein 25,600 LEDs are mounted on a 40-mm2 ASIC or the quasi invisible ALIYOS technology with super small LEDs.
Some applications are only known to specialists, nevertheless ams OSRAM can be considered as one of the hidden champions in these fields. Invisible, but necessary: LiDAR Lasers, IR mobile phone face recognition, gesture control, UV applications. We use it, but normally ams OSRAM is not linked to those applications. New fields are horticultural applications that might be interesting in global nutrition strategies.
All new is the combination of light sources and electronics like in EVIYOS and communication bus systems like in interior lighting. All those products make a very interesting combination, give business opportunities and are exciting us for the future.