A heavyweight business insider has been brought in to address the deteriorating situation at STMicroelectronics. Georges Penalver formerly at Sagem and France Telecom and a general partner at US-based investment fund Cathaya Capital,has ...
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A number of initiatives and funding programs in Europe continue to promote solid-state lighting as both a key enabling technology and a way to build industrial strength and create jobs,writes TIM WHITAKER. Solid-state lighting(SSL)is ...
STMicroelectronics has announced production stoppages at manufacturing sites at Crolles and Catania according to the French union UNSA and may soon announce a new business model for the company. The eight inch plant at Crolles will have ...
STMicroelectronics is bringing in the time-scale it has set for ST-Ericsson to become profitable,says Philippe Lambinet,ST's Chief Corporate Strategy Officer and General Manager. Lambinet says that the ST-E April plan to terminate 1,700 ...
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STMicroelectronics entered a strategic agreement with MicroOLED, a Grenoble, France-based company specialised in the development and commercialization of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), as well as announced a minority equity ...
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STMicroelectronics'strategy of being a'competitive follower'in process technology means that the advantage in gaining access to processing equipment gained by the Intel,Samsung,TSMC lithographic alliance with ASML will not affect ST. "We ...
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STMicroelectronics is the third largest spender on R&D in the semiconductor industry and has the second highest ratio of R&D spend to sales revenue among the major players,reports IC Insights. ST came third after Intel and Samsung in ...
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Silicon photonics processors have been developed by a research team at Bristol University and are currently being commercialised by Nokia and Toshiba. "In the next three years we will demonstrate devices that will outperform computers for ...
With exceptionally high resolution and extremely low power consumption that is the most power efficient on the market,OLEDs are ideally suited to micro-displays in a wide range of portable applications,spanning from camera viewfinders,video ...
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Next week STMicroelectronics will start running the 28nm FD-SOI NovaThor integrated modem and applications processor designed by ST-Ericsson,Jean-Marc Chery,Chief Manufacturing and Technology Officer of ST told EW in Crolles yesterday. ...
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STMicroelectronics has is MEMS sensor product business by acquiring the intellectual property and taking on most of the staff of Israeli company bTendo. ST has been working with the Israeli company to combine bTendo's scanning laser ...
Semiconductor and MEMS giant aims to integrate video-sharing devices within smart phones and laptops. Projector phone:Samsung's Galaxy Beam Swiss-headquartered STMicroelectronics,rated as the world's leading maker of ...
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STMicroelectronics is'focussed on delivering continued expense reduction',said CEO Carlo Bozotti,after the company made a loss of$75m in Q2,compared to a profit of$420m in Q2 2011,on sales 16%down on Q2 2011 at$2.15bn. ST said it would ...
ST-Ericsson had Q2 net sales up 19%on Q1 at$344m for a loss of$235m which was$62m less than the loss in Q1.It expects Q3 sales to be about the same. The increased Q2 sales'reflected a significant ramp of volumes of NovaThor platforms ...
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A teardown of the Nexus 7 tablet reveals Google is likely to break even on the $199 8GB version of its tablet while earning a modest profit on the 16GB version, which is priced at $249. IHS iSuppli said the 8GB version of the Nexus 7 has ...
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