Vivek Sharma of ST Micro on the broad-mix power and IoT opportunity

STMicroelectronics is the top investor in India in the semiconductor domain. ST has big development center in Noida and is one of the top 5 semiconductor vendors in India. ST's speciality is its ability to maintain top 3 global ranking in multiple domains of semiconductor components and sensors. This writer interacted with Vivek Sharma, Vice President, Greater China & South Asia- India Operations, STMicroelectronics at the recently concluded India semiconductor event IESA Vision Summit 2015. Like ST, Vivek's knowledge is also wider and deeper. Below are points explained by Vivek on ST's product offerings, IoT opportunity and India's Electronics and System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) market opportunities. On ST's sensor product mix: Vivek Sharma: Starting with motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, we have the pressure sensors, temperature sensors, humidity sensors and also miniature microphones. The key idea of this pillar (Vivek refers to ST's expertise in each category as pillar) is we were able to sense the world. At the end human pursue beyond our senses. On power semiconductor leadership: Vivek Sharma:The second pillar for us is power, Power is categorised into power generation, distribution and consumption and we need to really provide solutions in all these three. In power generation, there are convention...