Stmicroelectronics
84 Stories
Gartner: Asia leads semicon recovery
News Following a drastic decline in 2001, research firm Gartner Dataquest said the worldwide semiconductor market, buoyed largely by Asia-Pacific, is back in the black this year.
Chipping away at avian flu
News STMicroelectronics and Veredus Laboratories unveil a "world-first" chip to identify within two hours influenza strains including the deadly H5N1.
Tags: Components, Business applications
Chip firms team up for mobile standards
News Cell phone maker Nokia and chip industry players Texas Instruments, ARM Holdings and STMicroelectronics have formed an alliance to promote standard ways for the silicon chips inside cell phones to work together.
STMicro reports quarterly loss, lays off 4,500
News The semiconductor manufacturer has announced the redundancies as part of a cost-cutting drive, but it is not yet clear how many cuts will take place in the United Kingdom.
Tags: Layoffs, Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Semiconductor, Quarterly Loss, Computer, layoff, Forecasting, semiconductor maker, STMicroelectronics
Kyocera joins Android phone bandwagon
News The Japanese electronics company is building a phone powered by Google's Android operating system, and Wind River is helping Kyocera out.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Android, Open Source, Wind River Systems Inc., phone, STMicroelectronics, NEC Electronics Corp., software, High Tech Computer Corp.
IBM, NEC team up on 32nm chip tech
News NEC has signed a multi-year agreement to enroll in the joint-development alliance set up by IBM to work on next-generation 32-nanometer technology.
Tags: Processors, NEC Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, STMicroelectronics, performance, processor, transistor, power consumption, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
IBM shrinks SRAM cell for future chip generation
News The new static random access memory cell could be used in chips based on a 22nm manufacturing process, according to IBM.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, IBM Corp., SRAM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cell, Semiconductor, Chip, STMicroelectronics, San Francisco
NXP to shed up to 4,500 jobs
News The company blames the global economic slowdown for the redundancies, which will mostly be in its manufacturing operations.
Tags: Layoffs, Processors, Security, Manufacturing, Spokesperson, Environment, STMicroelectronics, job loss, London, job
Intel, STMicro to form new flash company
News Two chipmakers and private equity firm Francisco Partners are creating an independent company in Switzerland.
Tags: Memory, Investments
STMicroelectronics to buy silicon tech firm
News
Qualcomm-challenging cell phones to debut in 2004
News Signaling a new challenge for chipmaker Qualcomm, handset manufacturers are planning an October or November debut of cell phones using chipsets created in tandem by Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics, a TI executive said Friday.
STMicroelectronics travels further into India
News The chip giant opens a new design facility in the country and plans to hire more engineers to work on embedded software.
Gartner: China chip market only one that will grow in 2001
News China's market for semiconductors will probably be the only one to grow this year, market researcher Gartner Inc said, as consumers continue to buy more electronic products in the world's most populous nation.
Gartner: China chip market only one that will grow in 2001
News China's market for semiconductors will probably be the only one to grow this year, market researcher Gartner Inc said, as consumers continue to buy more electronic products in the world's most populous nation.
Chip heavyweights hope alliance adds up
News Motorola, Philips and STMicroelectronics will collaborate on manufacturing technologies that ultimately could produce new kinds of chips for consumer electronics.
