ams OSRAM AG is an Austrian semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Premstätten, Austria with a co-headquarters in Munich, Germany.

The company develops and produces intelligent sensors and emitter components In 2020 ams AG acquired the German lighting, LED, and opto-semiconductor manufacturer OSRAM.

[3] The ams OSRAM portfolio includes light emitters, sensors and CMOS ICs with embedded software solutions as well as lighting systems and specialty lamps for automotive, industrial and entertainment applications.The company mainly address the automotive, industrial and medical markets, as well as selected fields of consumer electronics.

[6] The Semiconductors segment covers semiconductor-based products and solutions, such as LEDs, lasers, sensors, and CMOS ICs with embedded software.

[citation needed] In 1983, the Austrian chancellor Fred Sinowatz officially opened the 100 mm wafer factory which started its production with 300 employees.

[clarification needed] NASA's "Deep Space 2" mission in 1998 took off with 2 chips developed from ams and the aircraft manufacturer Boeing.

At the same time a license agreement has been reached between austriamicrosystems AG and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.), the largest global IC foundry.

New sales offices in Singapore were opened in the same year, furthermore an expansion of locations in Hong Kong, Japan and the USA was carried out.

[14] austriamicrosystems AG decided to continue its policy of expansion with new sales offices in South Korea, China (Suzhou), Finland and Sweden.

In 2007, austriamicrosystems AG stepped into new business segments in the form of a partnership with the micro motor manufacturer New Scale Technologies.

[23] In November 2015, ams acquired CMOSIS, a supplier of area scan and miniature medical CMOS image sensors.

[28] In March 2017, ams acquired 100% of the shares in Princeton Optronics, Inc., a provider of Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs), in an all-cash transaction.

[30] It also received a gold medal from the President of Special Olympics Austria for its outstanding support with the Host-Town Program of the World Winter Games 2017.

[33] In April 2019, ams share value surged 20% after offering their 3D sensor technology to Android makers, that was once exclusive to their largest client, Apple.