Item 1. Business
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Item 1. Business
Overview
ON Semiconductor Corporation, together with its wholly and majority-owned subsidiaries, which operate under the onsemiTM brand ("onsemi," "we," "us," "our," or the "Company"), was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware in 1992.
We provide industry leading intelligent power and sensing solutions to help our customers solve challenging problems and create cutting edge products for a better future. Our intelligent power technologies enable the electrification of the automotive industry that allows for lighter and longer-range electric vehicles, empowers efficient fast-charging systems and propels sustainable energy for the highest efficiency solar strings, industrial power and storage systems. Our intelligent power solutions for automotive allows our customers to exceed range targets with lower weight and reduce system cost through efficiency. Our intelligent sensing technologies support the next generation industry allowing for smarter factories and buildings while also enhancing the automotive mobility experience with imaging and depth sensing that make advanced vehicle safety and automated driving systems possible. We believe the evolution of the automotive industry, with advancements in autonomous driving, ADAS, vehicle electrification, and the increase in electronics content for vehicle platforms, is reshaping the boundaries of transportation.
Through sensing integration, we believe our intelligent power solutions achieve superior efficiencies compared to our peers. This integration allows lower temperature operation and reduced cooling requirements while saving costs and minimizing weight. In addition, our power solutions deliver power with less die per module, achieving higher range for a given battery capacity.
Additionally, we serve a broad base of end-user markets, which include communications, computing and consumer.
We are organized into the following three operating and reportable segments: the Power Solutions Group ("PSG"), the Advanced Solutions Group ("ASG") and the Intelligent Sensing Group ("ISG").
Business Strategy Developments
Our primary focus continues to be on profitable revenue growth in our focused end-markets of automotive and industrial infrastructure, as well as obtaining longer-term supply arrangements with strategic end-customers. We are focused on achieving efficiencies in our operating and capital expenditures. We have made significant progress on gross margin and operating margin expansion by focusing our capital allocation on research and development investments and resources to accelerate growth in high-margin products and end-markets. Additionally, we continue to rationalize our product portfolio by moving away from non-differentiated, non-strategic products, which in most cases had lower gross and operating margins. To this effect, in September 2022, we approved an exit plan to wind down QCS, which will further enable us to direct our investments to areas of strategic focus.
During 2022, we completed the divestitures of certain manufacturing facilities. We believe these actions, among others, will allow us to transition from sub-scale factories into a lighter internal fabrication model where our financial performance will be less volatile and not as heavily influenced by our internal manufacturing volumes. We will continue to evaluate our manufacturing footprint in 2023 to align with our investment priorities and corporate strategy. Our goal is to reduce volatility in our gross margins and maximize return on our manufacturing investments with the intention of having our product strategy drive our manufacturing footprint and capital investments. In 2023, our focus will be on ramping up manufacturing at our recently acquired East Fishkill, New York fabrication ("EFK") facility, as well as investing to expand our facilities in the Czech Republic, Hudson, New Hampshire, and South Korea to increase our SiC manufacturing capabilities to meet the growing demand for our SiC-based solutions.
See Note 5: ''Acquisitions and Divestitures'' in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K for additional information related to our acquisition and divestiture activity.
Recent Acquisitions
On December 31, 2022, we completed our acquisition of the EFK facility and certain other assets and liabilities from GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. ("GFUS"), which was previously announced in April 2019, for total consideration of
$406.3 million. In connection with the acquisition agreement, we paid GFUS $100.0 million and $70.0 million during 2020 and 2019, respectively, with the balance of $236.3 million paid on January 3, 2023. In addition, in 2019 we paid GFUS a one-time license fee of $30.0 million for certain technology, which has been recognized as an intangible asset subject to amortization. The transaction has been accounted for as a business combination.
On October 28, 2021, we completed our acquisition of GT Advanced Technologies Inc. ("GTAT"), a producer of SiC substrates. The purchase price for the acquisition was $434.9 million, which included cash consideration of $424.6 million and effective settlement of pre-acquisition balances (non-cash) of approximately $10.0 million, in exchange for all of the outstanding equity interests of GTAT. We believe the acquisition of GTAT will act as a building block to fuel growth and secure supply of SiC to meet growing customer demand for SiC-based solutions.
Completed Divestitures of Certain Manufacturing Facilities
During 2022, in line with our business strategy, we divested our wafer manufacturing facilities in Oudenaarde, Belgium, South Portland, Maine, Pocatello, Idaho and Niigata, Japan. We agreed to wafer supply agreements with the respective buyers of these facilities to ensure that there is no disruption in our ability to meet customer demand for our products.
See Note 5: ''Acquisitions and Divestitures'' in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K for additional information.
New Legislation
In August 2022, the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act, H.R. 4346 (the "CHIPS Act") and the Inflation Reduction Act, H.R. 5376 (the "IR Act") were signed into law. Among other things, the CHIPS Act provides various incentives and tax credits to United States companies for research, development, manufacturing and workforce development in domestic semiconductor manufacturing. The IR Act introduces a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax ("CAMT") for certain corporations and a 1% excise tax on certain stock repurchases. The Company is evaluating the provisions of the new laws and the potential impacts to the Company. See Note 4: ''Recent Accounting Pronouncements and Other Developments''' in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K for additional information.
Revenue-Generating Activities
onsemi generates revenue from the sale of semiconductor products to distributors and direct customers. We also generate revenue, to a much lesser extent, from product development agreements and manufacturing services provided to customers. We believe that our ability to offer a broad range of products, combined with our global manufacturing and logistics network, provides our customers with single source purchasing.
The following table illustrates the product technologies under each of our segments based on our operating strategy:
| PSG | ASG | ISG | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 Revenue (%) | 50.5% | 34.1% | 15.3% | |||||||||||||||||
| Analog products | Analog products | Actuator Drivers | ||||||||||||||||||
| SiC products | ASIC products | CMOS Image Sensors | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discrete products | ECL products | Image Signal Processors | ||||||||||||||||||
| MOSFET products | Foundry products / services | LSI products | ||||||||||||||||||
| Power Module products | Gate Driver products | Single Photon Detectors | ||||||||||||||||||
| Isolation products | LSI products | Sensors | ||||||||||||||||||
| Memory products | Standard Logic products | |||||||||||||||||||
| Gate Driver products | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Standard Logic products | ||||||||||||||||||||
See Note 3: ''Revenue and Segment Information'' in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K for other information regarding our segments, their revenue and property, plant and equipment and the gross profit derived from each segment.
Products and Technology
The following provides certain information regarding the products and technologies for each of our operating segments.
PSG
PSG offers a wide array of analog, discrete, module and integrated semiconductor products that perform multiple application functions, including power switching, power conversion, signal conditioning, circuit protection, signal amplification and voltage regulation functions. The trends driving growth within our end-user markets are primarily higher power efficiency and power density in power applications, the demand for greater functionality, and faster data transmission rates in all communications. The advancement of existing volt electrical infrastructure, electrification of power train in the form of EV/HEV, higher trench density enabling lower losses in power efficient packages and lower capacitance and integrated signal conditioning products to support faster data transmission rates significantly increase the use of high-power semiconductor solutions. The recent increase in the use of WBG MOSFETs and diodes, including SiC and IGBT, is further expanding the use of semiconductor products.
ASG
ASG designs and develops analog, mixed-signal, advanced logic, ASSPs and ASICs, RF and integrated power solutions for a broad base of end-users in different end-markets. Our product solutions enable industry leading active mode and standby mode efficiency now demanded by regulatory agencies around the world. Additionally, ASG offers trusted foundry and design services for our government customers, which leverages our broad range of manufacturing, IC design, packaging, and silicon technology offerings to provide turn-key solutions for our customers.
ISG
ISG designs and develops CMOS image sensors, image signal processors, single photon detectors, including SiPM and SPAD arrays, as well as actuator drivers for autofocus and image stabilization for a broad base of end-users in the different end-markets. Our broad range of product offerings delivers excellent pixel performance, sensor functionality and camera systems capabilities in which high quality visual imagery is becoming increasingly important to our customers and their end-users, particularly in automotive and factory automation and in applications powered by AI.
Customers
We sell our products to distributors and direct customers for ultimate use in a variety of end-products in different end-markets. In general, we have maintained long-term relationships with our key customers and our sales agreements are renewable periodically and contain certain terms and conditions with respect to payment, delivery, warranty and supply. During 2022, we entered into a number of long-term supply agreements with certain strategic end-customers, which generally include minimum purchase commitments. Certain of our agreements, subject to our standard terms and conditions, have provisions allowing for termination at any time for convenience by either party.
We generally warrant that products sold to our customers will, at the time of shipment, be free from defects in workmanship and materials and conform to our approved specifications. Our standard warranty extends for a period of two years from the date of delivery, except in the case of image sensor products, which are warrantied for one year from the date of delivery. Unless otherwise agreed in writing with our customers, they may cancel orders 120 days prior to shipment for standard products without penalty and, for custom products, prior to shipment, provided they pay onsemi's actual costs incurred as of the date we receive the cancellation notice. The loss of one of our large customers would have a material adverse effect on the operations of the respective segment, and may have a material adverse effect on our consolidated results of operations.
Distributors
Sales to distributors accounted for approximately 58% of our revenue in 2022, 64% of our revenue in 2021 and 60% of our revenue in 2020. We had one distributor whose revenue accounted for approximately 12% of the total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022. Our distributors resell our products to contract manufacturers, OEMs among other companies. Sales to distributors are typically made pursuant to agreements that provide return rights and stock rotation provisions permitting limited levels of product returns.
Direct Customers
Sales to direct customers, accounted for approximately 42% of our revenue in 2022, 36% of our revenue in 2021 and 40% of our revenue in 2020. Large multi-nationals and selected regional OEMs, which are significant in specific markets, form our core direct customers. Generally, these customers do not have the right to return our products following a sale other than pursuant to our warranty.
For additional information regarding agreements with our customers, see "Markets," "Resources" and "Risk Factors - Trends, Risks and Uncertainties Related to Our Business" included elsewhere in this Form 10-K and Note 2: ''Significant Accounting Policies'' under the heading "Revenue Recognition" in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Markets
Product Development
onsemi is focused on innovation to create intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the most challenging customer problems. Our product development efforts are directed towards the following:
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Powering the electrification of the automotive industry with our intelligent power technologies that allow for lighter and longer-range electric vehicles and enable efficient fast-charging systems;
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Propelling the sustainable energy evolution with our intelligent power technologies for the highest efficiency solar strings, industrial power and storage systems;
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Enhancing the automotive mobility experience with our intelligent sensing technologies with imaging and depth sensing that make advanced vehicle safety and automated driving systems possible; and
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Enabling automation and data exchange (Industry 4.0) with our intelligent sensing technologies for smarter factories and buildings.
While our new product development efforts continue to be focused on building solutions in areas that appeal to customers in focused market segments and across multiple high-growth applications, it is our practice to regularly re-evaluate our research and development spending, to assess the deployment of resources and to review the funding of high-growth technologies. We deploy people and capital with the goal of maximizing the return for our research and development investments by targeting innovative products and solutions for high growth applications that we believe position us to outperform the industry.
End-Markets
We serve a broad base of end-user markets, with a primary focus towards automotive and industrial. The following table sets forth our principal end-markets, the estimated percentage (based in part on information provided by our distributors) of our revenue generated from each end-market during 2022, and sample applications for our products. Other includes the end-markets of communication, consumer and computing.
| Automotive | Industrial | Other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 Revenue (%) | 40.4% | 27.5% | 32.1% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sample applications | EV | Energy & EV Charging Infrastructure | Cloud Computing/Data Center Servers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ADAS | Industrial Automation | 5G Base Stations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Management | Security & Surveillance | Graphics Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Powertrain | Machine Vision | Gaming, Home Entertainment Systems, & Set Top Boxes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In-Vehicle Networking | Smart Cities & Buildings | Routers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Body & Interior | Hearing Health, Diagnostic, Therapy, & Monitoring | Notebooks, Laptops, Desktop PCs and Tablets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lighting | Power Solutions | USB Type-C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sensors | AR/VR | White Goods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Engine Control | Motor Control | Power Supplies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robotics | Smart Phones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competition
We face significant competition from major international semiconductor companies, as well as smaller companies focused on specific market niches. Because some of our components include functionality that in some cases may be integrated into more complex ICs, we also face competition from manufacturers of ICs, ASICs and fully-customized ICs, as well as customers who develop their own IC products. See "Risk Factors—Trends, Risks and Uncertainties Related to Our Business" included elsewhere in this Form 10-K for additional information.
Some of our competitors have greater financial and other resources to pursue development, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of their products and may generally be better situated to withstand adverse economic or market conditions. The semiconductor industry has experienced, and may continue to experience, significant consolidation among companies and vertical integration among customers. The following discusses the effects of competition on our three operating segments:
PSG
Our competitive strengths include our core competencies of leading-edge fabrication technologies, micro and module packaging expertise, breadth of product line and IP portfolio, high quality cost effective manufacturing and supply chain management, which ensures supply to our customers. Our commitment to continual innovation allows us to provide an ever broader range of semiconductor solutions to our customers who differentiate in power density and power efficiency, the key performance characteristics driving our markets.
The principal methods of competition in our discrete, module and integrated semiconductor products are through new products and package innovations enabling enhanced performance over existing products. Of particular importance are our intelligent power technologies based on silicon and SiC wide band gap technologies, which we use to design, manufacture, and deliver to our customers as bare die, packaged discrete solutions or power module solutions. In addition to our power technologies, we believe our integrated circuit, signal and protection technologies have significant performance advantages over our competition. PSG’s primary competitors include: Infineon Technologies AG ("Infineon"), STMicroelectronics N.V. ("STMicroelectronics"), Wolfspeed Inc., Texas Instruments Incorporated ("TI") and Nexperia BV.
ASG
ASG principally competes on design experience, manufacturing capability, depth and quality of IP, ability to service customer needs from the design phase to the shipping of a completed product, length of design cycle, longevity of technology support and experience of sales and technical support personnel. Our competitive position with respect to the above basis is enhanced by long-standing relationships with leading direct customers.
Our ability to compete successfully depends on internal and external variables. These variables include, but are not limited to, the timeliness with which we can develop new products and technologies, product performance and quality, manufacturing yields and availability of supply, customer service, pricing, industry trends and general economic trends. Competitors for certain of ASG's products and solutions include: Infineon, NXP Semiconductors N.V. ("NXP"), STMicroelectronics and TI.
ISG
ISG differentiates itself from the competition through deep technical knowledge and close customer relationships to drive leading edge sensing performance for both human and machine vision applications. ISG has significant imaging experience and was one of the earliest to commercialize CMOS active pixel sensors and introduce CMOS technology in many of our markets. ISG has leveraged this expertise into market leading positions in automotive and industrial applications, which allows us to offer technical and end-user applications knowledge to help customers develop innovative sensing solutions across a broad range of end-user needs.
Competitors for certain of ISG's products and solutions include: Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Omnivision Technologies Inc.
Sales, Marketing and Distribution
We have global distribution centers in China, the Philippines and Singapore. Global and regional distribution channels further support our customers' needs for quick response and service. We offer efficient, cost-effective global applications support from our technical information centers and solution engineering centers, allowing for applications that are developed in one region of
the world to be instantaneously available throughout all other regions.
Backlog
Our sales are made primarily pursuant to orders that are booked as far as 52 weeks in advance of delivery. Generally, prices and quantities are fixed at the time of booking. Backlog as of a given date consists of existing orders and forecasted demand from our customers, in each case scheduled to be shipped in the current or future period. Backlog is influenced by several factors, including market demand, pricing and customer order patterns in reaction to product lead times.
In the semiconductor industry, backlog quantities and shipment schedules under outstanding purchase orders are frequently revised to reflect changes in customer needs. Historically, a significant portion of our backlog was cancellable, however, our current agreements, including orders subject to minimum purchase commitments under our longer-term supply arrangements, are not subject to cancellation, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
Resources
Raw Materials
Our manufacturing processes use many raw materials, including silicon wafers, SiC wafers, laminate substrates, gold, copper, lead frames, mold compound, ceramic packages and various chemicals and gases as well as other production supplies used in our manufacturing processes. We seek to obtain our raw materials and supplies in a timely, planned manner from our suppliers to allow for our manufacturing cycle to align with the timing of our customer demands. However, suppliers may extend lead times, limit supplies or increase prices due to capacity constraints or other factors beyond our control, including any caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or other public health crises.
Manufacturing and Design Operations
We currently have domestic design operations in Arizona, California, Idaho, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah and Virginia. We also have foreign design operations in Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Romania, Singapore, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. In October 2022, we ceased operations at our design locations in Australia and Russia as part of the exit plan to wind down QCS. We operate front-end wafer fabrication facilities in the Czech Republic, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the United States and back-end assembly and test site facilities in Canada, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the United States. In addition to these front-end and back-end manufacturing operations, our facility in Hudson, New Hampshire manufactures SiC crystal boules and our facility in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic manufactures silicon wafers that are used by a number of our facilities.
The table below sets forth information with respect to the manufacturing facilities we operate either directly or pursuant to joint ventures, the reportable segments that use such facilities, and the approximate gross square footage of each site's building, which includes, among other things, manufacturing, laboratory, warehousing, office, utility, support and unused areas.
| Location | Reportable Segment | Size (sq. ft.) | ||||||||||||
| Front-end Facilities: | ||||||||||||||
| East Fishkill, New York | ASG, ISG and PSG | 2,724,137 | ||||||||||||
| Gresham, Oregon | ASG, ISG and PSG | 558,457 | ||||||||||||
| Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic | ASG and PSG | 438,882 | ||||||||||||
| Seremban, Malaysia (Site 2) (3) | ASG and PSG | 133,061 | ||||||||||||
| Bucheon, South Korea | ASG and PSG | 861,081 | ||||||||||||
| Mountaintop, Pennsylvania | ASG and PSG | 437,000 | ||||||||||||
| Aizuwakamatsu, Japan | ASG and PSG | 734,482 | ||||||||||||
| Back-end Facilities: | ||||||||||||||
| Burlington, Canada (1) | ASG | 95,440 | ||||||||||||
| Leshan, China (3) | ASG and PSG | 416,339 | ||||||||||||
| Seremban, Malaysia (Site 1) (3) | ASG, ISG and PSG | 328,275 | ||||||||||||
| Carmona, Philippines (3) | ASG, ISG and PSG | 926,367 | ||||||||||||
| Tarlac City, Philippines (3) | ASG, ISG and PSG | 381,764 | ||||||||||||
| Shenzhen, China (1) | ASG, ISG and PSG | 275,463 | ||||||||||||
| Bien Hoa, Vietnam (3) | ASG and PSG | 294,418 | ||||||||||||
| Nampa, Idaho (1) (2) | ISG | 166,268 | ||||||||||||
| Cebu, Philippines (3) | ASG and PSG | 228,460 | ||||||||||||
| Suzhou, China (3) | ASG and PSG | 452,639 | ||||||||||||
| Other Facilities: | ||||||||||||||
| Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic | ASG, ISG and PSG | 11,873 | ||||||||||||
| Thuan An District, Vietnam (3) | ASG and PSG | 30,494 | ||||||||||||
| Hudson, New Hampshire (1) | PSG | 272,036 |
(1)These facilities are leased.
(2)This facility is used for both front-end and back-end operations.
(3)These facilities are located on leased land.
For additional information regarding acquisitions and divestitures, see Note 5: ''Acquisitions and Divestitures'' in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
All of our manufacturing facilities are fully owned and operated by us, except our assembly and test operations facility located in Leshan, China, which is owned by Leshan-Phoenix Semiconductor Company Limited, a joint venture company in which we own 80% of the outstanding equity interests ("Leshan"). The financial and operating results of Leshan have been consolidated in our financial statements. Our joint venture partner is Leshan Radio Company Ltd. ("Leshan Radio"), is formerly a state-owned enterprise. Pursuant to the joint venture agreement between us and Leshan Radio, requests for production capacity are made to the board of directors of Leshan by each shareholder of the joint venture. Each request represents a purchase commitment, provided that any shareholder may elect to pay the cost associated with the unused capacity (which is generally equal to the fixed cost of the capacity) in lieu of satisfying the commitment. We purchased 80% of Leshan's production capacity in each of 2022, 2021 and 2020 and are currently committed to purchase approximately 80% of Leshan's expected production capacity in 2023.
We use third-party contractors for some of our manufacturing activities, primarily for wafer fabrication and the assembly and testing of finished goods. Our agreements with these contract manufacturers typically require us to forecast product needs and commit to purchase services consistent with these forecasts. In some cases, longer-term commitments are required in the early stages of the relationship. These manufacturers collectively accounted for approximately 43% of our total manufacturing input costs in 2022, 37% in 2021 and 33% in 2020.
For information regarding risks associated with our foreign operations, see "Risk Factors — Trends, Risks and Uncertainties Related to Our Business" included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Other Intellectual Property Rights
We market our products under worldwide trademarks including the ON Semiconductor, ON, onsemi, and various product names and logos, and, in the United States and internationally, we rely primarily on a combination of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, employee and non-disclosure agreements and licensing agreements to protect our IP. We acquired or were licensed or sublicensed to a significant amount of IP, including patents and patent applications, in connection with our acquisitions, and we have numerous United States and foreign patents issued, allowed and pending. As of December 31, 2022, we held patents with expiration dates ranging from 2023 to 2043, and none of the patents that expire in the next three years are expected to materially affect our business. We do not consider our business substantially dependent on any single onsemi patent. Our policy is to protect our products and processes by asserting our IP rights where appropriate and prudent and by obtaining patents, copyrights and other IP rights used in connection with our business when practicable and appropriate.
For information regarding risks associated with intellectual property, see "Risk Factors — Trends, Risks and Uncertainties Related to Intellectual Property" included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Seasonality
We believe our business today is driven more by content gains within applications and secular growth drivers and not solely by macroeconomic and industry cyclicality, as was the case historically. Our 2022 results were positively influenced by macroeconomic factors including a better-than-expected demand and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic along with our efforts focused on price increases, better utilization, product diversification and content gains. We could again experience period-to-period fluctuations in operating results due to general industry or macroeconomic conditions. For information regarding risks associated with the cyclicality and seasonality of our business, see "Risk Factors—Trends, Risks and Uncertainties Related to Our Business" included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Government Regulation
Our manufacturing operations are subject to environmental and worker health and safety laws and regulations. These laws and regulations include those relating to emissions and discharges into the air and water, the management and disposal of hazardous substances, the release of hazardous substances into the environment at or from our facilities and at other sites and the investigation and remediation of contamination. As with other companies engaged in like businesses, the nature of our operations exposes us to the risk of liabilities and claims, regardless of fault, with respect to such matters, including personal injury claims and civil and criminal fines.
We believe that our operations are in material compliance with applicable environmental and health and safety laws and regulations. The costs we incurred in complying with applicable environmental regulations for the year ended December 31, 2022 were not material, and we do not expect the cost of complying with existing environmental and health and safety laws and regulations, together with any liabilities for currently known environmental conditions, to have a material adverse effect on our capital expenditures or earnings or on our competitive position. It is possible, however, that future developments, including
changes in laws and regulations, government policies, customer specification, personnel and physical property conditions, including currently undiscovered contamination, could lead to material costs, and such costs may have a material adverse effect on our future business or prospects. See Note 13: ''Commitments and Contingencies'' in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K for information on certain environmental matters.
We are also subject to numerous United States and foreign laws and regulations, including, without limitation, tariffs, trade sanctions, trade barriers, trade embargoes, regulations relating to import-export control, technology transfer restrictions, the International Traffic in Arms Regulation promulgated under the Arms Export Control Act ("ITAR"), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), and the anti-boycott provisions of the U.S. Export Administration Act. Additionally, United States or China governmental authorities have taken, and may continue to take, administrative, legislative or regulatory action that could impact our operations.
We believe that our operations are in material compliance with applicable trade regulations relating to import-export control, technology transfer restrictions, ITAR, FCPA, the anti-boycott provisions of the U.S. Export Administration Act, and similar applicable laws and regulations. The costs we incurred in complying with applicable trade regulations for the year ended December 31, 2022 were not material, and we do not expect the cost of complying with existing trade laws and regulations to have a material adverse effect on our capital expenditures or earnings or on our competitive position. It is possible, however, that future developments, including changes in laws and regulations or government policies, could lead to material costs, and such costs may have a material adverse effect on our future business or prospects. For information regarding risks associated with import-export control regulations and similar applicable laws and regulations, see "Risk Factors—Trends, Risks and Uncertainties Related to Our Business" included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives
onsemi strives to be a responsible corporate citizen. We uphold ethical standards in our business practices and policies, and we believe that sustainable corporate practices and consistent attention to environmental, social and governance priorities will help enhance long-term value for our stockholders.
In 2022, onsemi affirmed its climate change policy, highlighting the focus areas for its climate change-related actions. onsemi is committed to protect and respect its environment and energy resources for future generations throughout its operations, including wafer fabrication, assembly, test, support operations, and through its value chain. In that regard, onsemi has committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2040.
We work together with our customers, peers, partners and suppliers to promote continual improvement in human rights, labor, environment, health and safety, anti-corruption, ethics and management system standards within our operations and our supply chain. We proactively comply with the Responsible Business Alliance (“RBA”) Code of Conduct including the elimination of forced labor, slavery and human trafficking and conflict minerals pursuant to our involvement with the Responsible Minerals Initiative.
Our Board of Directors (the "Board of Directors") and management regularly evaluate our corporate responsibility policies, including our Code of Business Conduct and other corporate social responsibility policies and programs, to ensure an effective outcome and adherence by our employees, suppliers, vendors and partners.
Human Capital Resources
Core Principles
Our success depends on our ability to attract, train, retain and motivate our employees involved in the design, development, manufacturing and support of new and existing products and services. As we are a member of the RBA, its principles are fundamental to our corporate culture and core values and are reflected in our commitments to our employees, customers, communities and other stakeholders. These principles include providing a safe and positive work environment to our employees that emphasizes learning and professional development and respect for individuals and ethical conduct.
Headcount
As of December 31, 2022, we had approximately 31,000 regular full-time employees and approximately 109 part-time and temporary employees in facilities located in 34 countries. Approximately 10.8% of our regular full-time employees are located in the United States and Canada, 11.0% in Europe and Middle Eastern countries and 78.1% in Asia Pacific and Japan, with approximately 74.7% engaged in manufacturing, 1.7% in research and development, 3.5% in customer service or other aspects of sales and marketing, and 20.1% in other roles. Approximately 116 of our domestic employees (or approximately 3.6% of our United States-based employees) are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. All of these employees are located at our Mountain Top, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility. Certain of our foreign employees are covered by collective bargaining arrangements (e.g., those in China, Vietnam, Japan, the Czech Republic and Belgium) or similar arrangements or are represented by workers councils.
The disclosed headcount information does not include the addition of approximately 1,050 full-time employees who joined the Company as part of the EFK acquisition, which was completed on December 31, 2022, as their employment with onsemi was not effective until January 1, 2023. For additional information, see Note 5: ''Acquisitions and Divestitures'' in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We are consciously expanding the diversity of our workforce, creating growth and development opportunities for our employees, embracing different perspectives and fostering an inclusive work environment. We have organization-level and overall metrics to monitor for diverse director-level and above employees, diverse new hires and diverse promotions. Our Human Resources organization and the Human Capital and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, through its charter, provides oversight of our policies, programs and initiatives focusing on workflow equity and workplace inclusion.
Compensation, Benefits, Health, Safety and Wellness
Our compensation philosophy is focused on delivering competitive compensation with total rewards based on corporate affordability in a way that enables attraction, retention, and recognition of performance delivered in an equitable manner. We provide our employees and their families with access to flexible and convenient health and wellness programs, including benefits that secure them during events that may require time away from work or that impact their financial well-being. We use a combination of total rewards and other programs (which vary by region and salary grade) to attract and retain our employees, including: annual performance bonuses; stock awards, including an employee stock purchase plan; retirement support; healthcare and insurance benefits; business travel and disability insurance; health savings and flexible spending accounts; flexible work schedules, vacation and paid time off; parental leave; paid counseling assistance; backup child and adult care; education assistance; and on-site services, such as health centers and fitness centers.
Career Growth and Development
We invest resources in professional development and growth as a means of improving employee motivation, performance and improving retention. Our talent development programs provide employees with the resources they need to help achieve their career goals, build management skills and lead their organizations. We have established a leadership pathway model as a tool for employees to practice and apply learning as part of their development.
Turnover
We monitor employee turnover rates by region and globally. The average tenure of our employees is approximately seven years and approximately one-fifth of our employees have been employed by us for more than 10 years. We believe our compensation philosophy along with the career growth and development opportunities promotes longer employee tenure and reduces voluntary turnover.
Executive Officers of the Registrant
Certain information concerning our executive officers as of February 6, 2023 is set forth below.
| Name | Age | Position | ||||||||||||
| Hassane El-Khoury | 43 | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director | ||||||||||||
| Thad Trent | 55 | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer | ||||||||||||
| Ross F. Jatou | 53 | Senior Vice President and General Manager, ISG | ||||||||||||
| Simon Keeton | 49 | Executive Vice President and General Manager, PSG | ||||||||||||
| Robert Tong | 63 | Senior Vice President and General Manager, ASG | ||||||||||||
All of our executive officers are also officers of SCI LLC. The present term of office for the officers named above will generally expire on the earliest of their retirement, resignation or removal. There are no family relationships among our executive officers.
Hassane El-Khoury. Mr. El-Khoury was elected as a Director of onsemi and appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of onsemi in December 2020. Prior to joining onsemi, he spent 13 years at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, a semiconductor design and manufacturing company ("Cypress"), serving as Chief Executive Officer from August 2016 to April 2020. During his time at Cypress, he held various positions spanning business unit management, product development, applications engineering and business development. Additionally, Mr. El-Khoury currently serves as a member of the board of directors at Sakuu Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Lawrence Technological University and a Master's of Engineering Management from Oakland University.
Thad Trent. Mr. Trent was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of onsemi in February 2021. Mr. Trent has held several leadership roles throughout his career, most recently as Chief Financial Officer at Cypress ("Cypress CFO") responsible for strategic planning, accounting, investor relations, tax, corporate development and information technology. Under his leadership, Cypress’ revenue increased from $723 million to $2.5 billion, and the enterprise value increased five times during his five-year tenure as Cypress CFO.
He served as Cypress CFO until its sale to Infineon in April 2020. He is a seasoned finance professional with progressive leadership and management experience with both global publicly held technology companies and startups. Mr. Trent has a proven track record of driving sustainable financial performance, transformative mergers and acquisitions, operational excellence, process efficiency, financial leadership and robust compliance and regulatory control. He earned his Bachelor of Science in business administration and finance at San Diego State University.
Ross F. Jatou. Mr. Jatou joined onsemi in 2015 as the Vice President and General Manager of the Automotive Solutions Division within our ISG division. In October 2020, he was named Senior Vice President and General Manager, ISG of onsemi, assuming leadership of both the divisions within ISG: the Automotive Sensing Division and the Industrial and Consumer Solutions Division. Prior to onsemi, Mr. Jatou had an extensive career with NVIDIA Corporation of nearly 15 years, where he was the Vice President of Hardware Engineering. His background and experience include product development, engineering management, and automotive design quality and forecasting, and he is an expert in imaging graphics and system interfaces, telecommunications, high performance computing, automotive and embedded solutions. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Applied Science in millimeter wave technology and parallel processing from the University of Toronto. Mr. Jatou completed executive business programs from Stanford University School of Business and Harvard Business School.
Simon Keeton. Mr. Keeton joined onsemi in July 2007 and is currently the Executive Vice President and General Manager, PSG of onsemi. During his career, Mr. Keeton has held various management positions within onsemi. Before Mr. Keeton’s promotion to his current role on January 1, 2019, he was a Senior Vice President and General Manager of the MOSFET Division. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Keeton served as Vice President and General Manager of the Integrated Circuit Division under our former Standard Products Group. Prior to that time, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Products Division from 2009 to 2012 and as Business Unit Director of our Signals and Interface Business Unit from 2007 to 2009. Before joining onsemi, Mr. Keeton served as Strategic Planning Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group of Intel Corporation ("Intel") and held various marketing and business management roles at Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering and a Master of Science Degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, and a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University – in addition to completing an executive business program from Harvard Business School.
Robert Tong. Mr. Tong joined onsemi in 2008 and is currently the Senior Vice President and General Manager, ASG of onsemi. Having joined onsemi through its acquisition of AMI Semiconductor, Inc., Mr. Tong has held a number of
management positions within onsemi. Prior to Mr. Tong’s promotion to his current role on June 1, 2022, he was Senior Vice President of the Mobile, Computing and Cloud Division. Prior to AMI Semiconductor, he served as president and chief executive officer of Dspfactory, a fabless semiconductor startup of DSP products for the hearing health industry. A fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Mr. Tong serves on the advisory board for the Dean of Engineering at McMaster University. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical and electronics engineering from McMaster University, as well as a Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Applied Science in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Available Information
Our website is www.onsemi.com. We make our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and other reports and all amendments to those reports available, free of charge, in the "Investor Relations" section of our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file these materials with, or furnish these materials to the SEC. Information on or accessible through our website is neither part of, nor incorporated by reference into, this Form 10-K or any other report filed with or furnished to the SEC. You can also find these materials on the SEC website at www.sec.gov, which contains reports, proxy statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.
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