The company's purpose is the design, development, industrialization, manufacturing, qualification, testing, and marketing of products, solutions, and services in the fields of electronics and information technology, notably semiconductors, integrated circuits, modules, subsystems, software, and associated tools. It also aims to provide research and development (R&D), prototyping, testing, measurement, validation, certification, regulatory compliance, industrialization, and application support services, as well as training and consulting related thereto, the acquisition, management, exploitation, licensing, and assignment of intellectual property rights (patents, software, know-how) and technology transfer; the purchase, sale, lease, and import-export of components, materials, software, equipment, and systems. The company may also engage in any other activity directly or indirectly related to these purposes; it may notably create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with identical or similar purposes, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations, and conclude all contracts aimed at developing and extending its purpose or directly or indirectly related thereto. It may also grant loans or other forms of financing to its subsidiaries, direct or indirect associates, and group companies, and provide them with guarantees, securities, or bonds of any kind, including free of charge.