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Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

19.

SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of products, including discrete and standard commodity components, application-specific integrated circuits (“ASICs”), full custom devices and semi-custom devices and application-specific standard products (“ASSPs”) for analog, digital, and mixed-signal applications. In addition, the Company further participates in the manufacturing value chain of Smartcard products, which includes the production and sale of both silicon chips and Smartcards.

The Company’s reportable segments are as follows:

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Automotive and Discrete Group (ADG), comprised of dedicated automotive ICs (both digital and analog), and discrete and power transistor products for all market segments.

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Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group (AMS), comprised of low-power high-end analog ICs (both custom and general purpose) for all markets, smart power products for Industrial, Computer and personal electronics markets, Touch Screen Controllers, Low Power Connectivity solutions (both wireline and wireless) for IoT, power conversion products, metering solutions for Smart Grid, specialized imaging sensors and modules, and all MEMS products for sensors or Actuators.

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Microcontrollers and Digital ICs Group (MDG), comprised of general purpose and secure microcontrollers, EEPROM memories, Digital ASICs, Aerospace & Defense products including components for microwave and millimeter wave.

Effective January 1, 2018, the Subsystems business unit was transferred from Others to AMS. Prior periods have been restated accordingly.

For the computation of the segments’ internal financial measurements, the Company uses certain internal rules of allocation for the costs not directly chargeable to the segments, including cost of sales, selling, general and administrative expenses and a part of research and development expenses. In compliance with the Company’s internal policies, certain costs are not allocated to the segments, but reported in “Others”. Those include impairment, restructuring charges and other related closure costs, management reorganization expenses, unused capacity charges, phase-out and start-up costs of certain manufacturing facilities, certain one-time corporate items, strategic and special research and development programs or other corporate-sponsored initiatives, including certain corporate-level operating expenses, patent claims and litigations and certain other miscellaneous charges. In addition, depreciation and amortization expense is part of the manufacturing costs allocated to the segments and is neither identified as part of the inventory variation nor as part of the unused capacity charges; therefore, it cannot be isolated in the costs of goods sold. Finally, R&D grants are allocated to the Company’s segments proportionally to the incurred R&D expenses on the sponsored projects.

Wafer costs are allocated to the segments based on actual cost. From time to time, with respect to specific technologies, wafer costs are allocated to segments based on market price.

The following tables present the Company’s consolidated net revenues and consolidated operating income by reportable segment.

Net revenues by reportable segment:

	December 31, 2019		December 31, 2018		December 31, 2017
Automotive and Discrete Group (ADG)		3,606		3,556		3,059
Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group (AMS)		3,299		3,154		2,630
Microcontrollers and Digital ICs Group (MDG)		2,638		2,940		2,646
Total net revenues of product segments		9,543		9,650		8,335
Others		13		14		12
Total consolidated net revenues		9,556		9,664		8,347

Operating income by reportable segment:

	December 31, 2019			December 31, 2018			December 31, 2017
Automotive and Discrete Group (ADG)		357			431			291
Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group (AMS)		596			488			364
Microcontrollers and Digital ICs Group (MDG)		354			547			405
Total operating income of product segments		1,307			1,466			1,060
Others^{(1) (2)}		(104	)		(66	)		(55	)
Total consolidated operating income ⁽³⁾		1,203			1,400			1,005

(1)

Operating results of “Others” include items such as unused capacity charges, impairment & restructuring charges and other related closure costs, management reorganization expenses, phase out and start-up costs, and other unallocated expenses such as: strategic or special research and development programs, certain corporate-level operating expenses, patent claims and litigations, and other costs that are not allocated to product groups, as well as assembly services and other revenue.

(2)

Effective January 1, 2018, the Subsystems business unit was transferred from Others to Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group (AMS). Prior periods have been restated accordingly.

(3)

Certain amounts presented in the year ended December 31, 2017 have been adjusted to reflect the January 1, 2018 adoption of ASU 2017-07 related to the reclassification of certain pension costs.

Reconciliation of operating income of segments to the total operating income:

	December 31, 2019			December 31, 2018			December 31, 2017
Total operating income of segments		1,307			1,466			1,060
Impairment, restructuring charges and other related closure costs		(5	)		(21	)		(45	)
Unallocated manufacturing results		(90	)		1			7
Strategic and other research and development programs and other non-allocated provisions⁽¹⁾		(9	)		(46	)		(17	)
Total operating loss Others		(104	)		(66	)		(55	)
Total consolidated operating income		1,203			1,400			1,005

(1)

Includes unallocated income and expenses such as certain corporate-level operating expenses and other costs/income that are not allocated to the product segments.

The following is a summary of operations by entities located within the indicated geographic areas for 2019, 2018 and 2017. Net revenues represent sales to third parties from the country in which each entity is located. Long-lived assets consist of property, plant and equipment, net (PP&E, net). A significant portion of property, plant and equipment expenditures is attributable to front-end and back-end facilities, located in the different countries in which the Company operates. As such, the Company mainly allocates capital spending resources according to geographic areas rather than along product segment areas.

Net revenues

	December 31, 2019		December 31, 2018		December 31, 2017
Netherlands		2,842		2,917		2,223
France		108		127		123
Italy		59		64		60
USA		1,157		1,132		1,012
Singapore		4,857		4,873		4,444
Japan		520		534		463
Other countries		13		17		22
Total		9,556		9,664		8,347

Property, plant and equipment

	December 31, 2019		December 31, 2018
Netherlands		897		775
France		726		686
Italy		900		786
Other European countries		117		81
USA		25		6
Singapore		670		494
Malaysia		218		231
Other countries		454		436
Total		4,007		3,495