To Our Valued Customers,

We are extremely pleased to be able to tell you that ams (austriamicrosystems AG) and Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. (TAOS) is now one unified global company with an expanded set of truly enviable assets. The combination of our two companies brings together an array of extremely complementary elements from technology and IP to a broadened product portfolio and market leadership that now provides more choices and increased design flexibility to our customers. These areas coupled with the robust supply chain, manufacturing and global quality support of the combined group offers our customers a critical advantage in assured supply and fast time-to-market. It further expands our strong analog design expertise and resources, creates a broader solutions portfolio in the area of power management, intelligent sensors, and sensor interfaces and positions our combined company with the critical components for developing future generations of advanced, intelligent or “smart” sensor platforms.

From a market perspective, we are proud and privileged to be able to say that many of the consumer electronics, industrial, automotive and medical industry’s most innovative and leading companies can be called our valued customers. These established relationships have culminated in many notable milestones for our combined company to include today being the #1 global supplier of MEMS microphone interfaces, a leader in mobile device power and lighting management, the leading supplier of advanced automotive and industrial sensors, sensor interfaces and complex healthcare sensor interfaces as well as the #1 global supplier of intelligent light sensors and the leading global supplier of digital light sensors for smartphones, tablet PCs and HDTVs. Our goal is to continue earning your trust and confidence by delivering new and differentiated solutions that will enable you to establish your own unique competitive advantage.

With this unified company comes an expanded global sales force and application support team that will provide you with improved design support and increased coverage wherever you may need it. These resources, coupled with a broader partner channel of valued reps and distributors, provide even further improvements in local support on a global level.
Our future success however will not be possible without the efforts of the talented people that now comprise our combined company. We look forward to leveraging these talents to provide you with more choices, more flexibility, greater technology innovation and advanced sensor solutions for future generations of products. We are now moving forward rapidly to integrate the combined company in a manner that will ensure you have a seamless and consistent experience wherever you engage us.

We invite you to join us and look forward to the opportunity to share our vision with you!

Sincerely,