Orchidée is a privately held fables semiconductor company with design, development and backend manufacturing operations in North America and Europe. The company was founded in 2004 to service European OEM customers in the telecommunications and automotive markets. Orchidée offers it’s customers a reduced-cost, long-life alternative to standard components which are becoming obsolete or have been discontinued. It’s technology is heavily geared towards wired communications including ISDN, PBX, DECT basestation and other voice and data terminal applications. Orchidée uses world-leading, pure-play wafer fabrication and packaging houses for manufacturing. Consequently, Orchidée benefits from the huge investment made in leading edge technologies which are then made available to its customers. Orchidée’s Wired Telecommunications and Microcontroller products are now found in all of the leading Tier-1 OEM customer’s equipment.