Items tagged with STMicro

by Joel Hruska - Mon, Jun 28, 2010

IBM, Samsung, GlobalFoundries and STMicro To Form 28nm Manufacturing Alliance

As process geometries shrink, the cost and complexity of manufacturing products that use them continues to rise. This fact has had a significant impact on the semiconductor industry as various foundries have either struggled to ramp production on a new process (TSMC's 40nm) or have delayed beginning their own... Read more...

by Stacy Doss - Mon, Jan 08, 2007

STMicroelectronics Announces 65nm Dual HD SoC for STBs

There has been a lot of news lately on Set Top Box (STB) System-on-Chip (SoCs) and dual High Definition (HD) mode devices, you can read more here, here and here. The latest news is a dual format, HD DVD/Blu-Ray decoder chip to be manufactured at 65nm for STBs. TMicroelectronics (NYSE:... Read more...

by Stacy Doss - Fri, Jan 05, 2007

STMicroelectronics Sampling New Set-Top Box Chip

Hot on the heels of Broadcom's announcement STB SoC yesterday, STMicroelectronics has announced the STi5107. Integration of the latest security specifications seem to be the biggest selling point of the new chip, although other performance enhancements have been added. STMicroelectronics, the world's largest supplier of silicon chips for... Read more...