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STMicroelectronics Appoints Andrea Cuomo as Corporate Vice President for Advanced System Technology |
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The appointment reflects the important contribution made by the Advanced System Technology group (AST) in positioning ST at the forefront of system-level integration and IP creation. AST was established in January 1999, with the mission to develop the advanced architectures that would drive key strategic applications such as digital consumer, wireless communications, computer peripherals and smart cards, as well as the broad range of emerging automotive applications such as car multimedia. The group has played a key role in establishing ST's pre-eminence in mobility, connectivity, multimedia, storage and security, the core competences required to drive today's convergence markets. "AST's challenge is to distil the expertise and expectations of our customers, our industrial and academic partners, our Central R&D team and our internal product groups into a cohesive and practical vision that defines the vision and the system technologies, including hardware, software and system integration skills, that ST will need in the next three to five years and the ways in which we will acquire and master them," explained Cuomo. Notable successes achieved by AST in its first three years include solutions for simultaneous MPEG2 encoding and decoding, targeting writable-DVD and Personal Video Recording applications; a baseline and RF architecture for 3G mobile systems; system solutions for imaging applications, solutions for channel coding and co-decoding for Digital TV. Research projects with research partners included the development with Telia Research of the Zipper-VDSL (Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line) system for next-generation communications and the successful development with HP Labs of a scalable and customizable VLIW micro core. These breakthrough technologies are now being developed for commercial production in the near future. With Andrea Cuomo's appointment to Corporate VP, AST has also been given responsibility for the design of all new generations of general-purpose microprocessors and DSP cores, along with their related compilers. This will ensure that ST's range of standalone and embedded processors, already one of the widest in the industry, will continue to offer customers the optimum trade-off between price, performance and time-to-market, in all applications. "As more and more of our customers' systems are implemented in our SoC silicon, we have to ensure that they have guaranteed portability between different applications, full compatibility of tool chains and exciting roadmaps for future product innovation," said Cuomo. About STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics, the world's third largest independent semiconductor company, is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivalled combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence markets. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on Euronext Paris and on the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2001, the Company's net revenues were $6.36 billion and net earnings were $257.1 million. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com |
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