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Accelerometer Maker Has Apple to Thank for High 2011 Profits

A new analysis by IHS iSuppli’s Jérémie Bouchaud reveals that STMicroelectronics cemented its leadership position in the global market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) last year mainly thanks to the booming sales to Apple. Exclusive design wins in the iPhone, iPad and iPod lines have all...

6 April 2012
17:21 GMT

European Semiconductor Manufacturers Concerned About EC's Involvement in 450mm Wafer R&D

Just a month after the European Commission decided to investigate the benefits of establishing a 450mm semiconductor prototype foundry in the EU, leading chip makers in the region have started to express their concern regarding Europe's role in this market and its contribution to 450mm wafer technology research ...

7 March 2011
10:24 GMT

STMicroelectronics Allows Mobile Devices to Stream Full HD Video to TVs

As more and more electronics gain the ability to play high-quality videos, there comes the need for interfaces capable of streaming such content to larger screens, since LCDs or OLEDs of just a few inches hardly do such videos justice, and STMicroelectronics claims to have developed a solution of this sort.What the ...

11 February 2011
10:28 GMT

STMicro Develops Two News Set-top Box Chips with IPTV Capabilities

While STMicroelectronics is much better known for its mobile communication solutions, the company also designs and builds STB controllers, two new such solutions just being announced which allow for standard-definition (SD) or high-definition (HD) equipment to share the same printed circuit board (PCB) design in orde...

20 December 2010
05:39 GMT

New Chip to Make Blu-ray Players Smaller, More Affordable

Although Blu-ray players have gotten both smaller and more affordable ever since they were initially presented to the world, it would seem that this slimming-down trend will be further accelerated by a new chip enabling smaller, lower-cost Blu-ray players and recorders, developed by STMicroelectronics.According to ST...

1 December 2010
06:39 GMT

STMicroelectronics Unveils Dual-Core ARM Cortex SPEAr1310

Technology is ever advancing and, while the changes are most noticeable on the consumer front, where hardware makers always come out in full force with their announcements and technologies, things are progressing just as steadily on other levels as well, as is made obvious by STMicroelectronics, which has just shown...

12 August 2010
06:14 GMT

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Lands Strategic Partnership with STMicroelectronics

Sunnyvale, California-based semiconductor manufacturing company GLOBALFOUNDRIES has just announced that it has landed a strategic customer relationship with STMicroelectronics, one of the world's leading suppliers of semiconductor solutions. According to a recent press statement, the two companies will partner t...

29 July 2009
04:30 GMT

STMicroelectronics Announces Miniature Filter to Deliver Better Audio Experience

The development of this new audio filter is meant to go mainstream in the future, even though many users would love to enjoy this new technology starting right now. Even so, the demand for such products isn't all that great for the moment, but, given the fact that the production of music phones is going to at l...

18 December 2008
04:38 GMT

STMicro Unveils Bird Flu Lab-On-A-Chip

Semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics announced that it has successfully achieved a completely mobile processor able to detect a plethora of influenza viruses, such as the feared Bird Flu in humans and other animals.According to its manufacturers, the chip offers identical performance to a fully-fledged labor...

25 March 2008
03:56 GMT

Nokia Closes Agreement for 3G Chipset Development

Nokia just announced closing of a deal with STMicroelectronics in order to deepen their collaboration. The two companies announced their intention on collaborating on the 8th of August, this year and seem to have stuck to the promise.As a result of the new agreement, approximately 185 highly-skilled engineers and oth...

5 November 2007
10:04 GMT

Nokia Deepens Collaboration for 3G Technology

Nokia has decided to increase their efforts in the development of evolved 3G technologies by expanding their partnership with STMicroelectronics. This comes as part of the Finnish company's new chipset development strategy and will start taking effect in the near future.Under the extended agreement, STMicroelect...

8 August 2007
06:40 GMT

IBM Enters Yet Another Alliance

STMicroelectronics is a Switzerland electronics manufacturer that recently signed up with IBM in order to jointly develop a new technological process for building computer chips using the 32 and 22 nanometer scales metal-oxide-semiconductors (CMOS) on 300 mm wafers. While now the standard is the larger 45 nm process ...

25 July 2007
04:23 GMT

New Ultra-Low-Power Touch-sensor Chips

Touch-sensitive devices have been the new trend to go lately when it comes to mobile technology. STMicroelectronics now brings several new ultra-low-power touch-sensor chips which can be successfully integrated in any mobile devices, such as cellulars, PDAs, notebook PCs and media players.This family of chips include...

27 June 2007
06:13 GMT

64-bit MIPS Architecture Licensed to STMicroelectronics

The Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages is a RISC microprocessor architecture which has seen a lot of usage in a large number of products such as Series2 TiVo, Windows CE devices, Cisco routers, video game consoles and handheld systems. MIPS Technologies is now one of the leading providers of processor...

28 March 2007
11:00 GMT

DRM from Fraunhofer IIS and STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS have signed an agreement to jointly develop a low power Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) applications.Riccardo Ferrari, General Manager Digital Broadcasting Radio Division of ST's Automotive Pro...

28 March 2007
09:54 GMT

Wireless HD IPTV Set-Top Box

Samsung Electronics, in collaboration with STMicroelectronics and Metalink, have announced the launch of a set-top box with support for High-Definition (HD) TV through the aid of the wireless 802.11n IPTV standard. The model is called Samsung SMT-H6155 and features a chipset from STMicroelectronics, the STi7109 which...

22 March 2007
09:25 GMT


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