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Visteon Corporation

A maker of automotive cockpit electronics, Visteon builds the digital instrument clusters, displays, and SmartCore cockpit computers that control infotainment and driver-assistance screens in vehicles made by carmakers around the world. The company was spun off from Ford Motor Company in 2000, where it began life as Ford's in-house parts division. Its name is a mash-up of "vision" and "eon," coined to suggest a company looking far into the future of driving.