STMicroelectronics has introduced its new automotive-grade application processor with embedded GPS for navigation and telematics. The Cartesio processor perfectly couples with ST’s GPS RF chip (STA5620), creating a unique offering that significantly reduces the form factor and bill-of-materials with no compromise in performance.

STMicroelectronics has introduced its new automotive-grade application processor with embedded GPS for navigation and telematics. The Cartesio processor perfectly couples with ST’s GPS RF chip (STA5620), creating a unique offering that significantly reduces the form factor and bill-of-materials with no compromise in performance.

STMicroelectronics today introduced a self-contained, entertaining and very low-cost development package, the STM32 Primer, for the recently-announced STM32 Flash microcontroller family, which is based on the breakthrough ARM Cortex-M3 core. It includes an innovative user interface, games, and other features to introduce new users to the family, as well as Raisonance software tools for advanced development and programming.

STMicroelectronics today introduced a new generation of ‘nano’ three-axis linear accelerometers. The versatile, low-power MEMS sensors provide complete output flexibility and embedded smart features, meeting the exploding demand for miniaturized motion-sensing solutions in the consumer and industrial markets.

STMicroelectronics has announced a new family of secure microcontrollers based on a 0.13-micron state-of-the-art process technology, which are intended for banking, loyalty card and other financial applications. This advanced family is based on the new ST23 secure platform, which takes advantage of the most recent improvements in security technology and offers optimized computing power for advanced secure applications.

STMicroelectronics today unveiled its new RF synthesizer with integrated voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) with the highest frequency coverage in the market. ST’s STW81103 is the first single-chip device that operates up to 5GHz, meeting the increasing demand of equipment manufacturers for space and cost-efficient solutions in radio applications with frequencies in the microwave range. Among the applications in which these devices may find ...

STMicroelectronics has announced two high-accuracy application specific digital temperature-sensor chips, fully compliant with the JEDEC JC42.4 specification, which are intended for monitoring the temperature of the DIMMs used in personal computers.

STMicroelectronics has announced the availability of the new M25PX32, a 32-Mbit device that is the first of the sector, sub-sector erase Serial Flash family to be offered with Dual I/O. Whereas existing M25PE family devices features high granularity, the new M25PX family stands out thanks to its guaranteed high-speed performance.

The Portland Group®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and leading supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), today announced that PGI compilers and development tools now generate code targeted at Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, code-named “Barcelona”. PGI and AMD are cooperating to provide these compilers to independent software vendors and customers interested in migrating and tuning applications for AMD...

STMicroelectronics today announced a new series of 8-bit Flash microcontrollers, within the low-cost ST7Lite family, that feature up to 24 I/O (input/output) lines, further extending the range of cost-sensitive applications for the popular family. ST7Lite is designed specifically for simpler products such as security and lighting systems, power management, small appliances, sensors and motor control.

STMicroelectronics has announced an addition to its award-winning1 Nomadik family of mobile multimedia application processors, which builds on the success of the pioneering STn8810 by increasing the speed of its ARM9 core by almost 50%. The new higher-speed core in the STn8811 delivers stunning performance for general-purpose applications running alongside video, music and image processing on smart mobile phones, personal media players (PMPs) and...

STMicroelectronics today announced a new 1-Mbit serial EEPROM with SPI bus (serial peripheral interface) in the tiny SO8N package with 150-mil (3.8mm) body width – the first SPI serial EEPROM in the market to squeeze this high memory density into such a small package. Also offered in the wider SO8W, the new M95M01 is intended for the storage of fast-changing parameter data in consumer electronics products such as digital TVs (DTV) DVD players a...

Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics and Francisco Partners have unveiled the company name of “Numonyx” for the pending independent semiconductor company announced on May 22. Numonyx, being created from the key assets of businesses that last year generated approximately $3.6 billion in combined annual revenue, will focus on supplying non-volatile memory solutions for a variety of consumer and industrial devices including cellular phones, MP3...

STMicroelectronics has today announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2007 it had shipped a cumulative total of more than 400 million MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoder chips – used worldwide in STBs, digital television sets (DTV) and DVD players – since entering the market with the world’s first MPEG-2 System-on-Chip (SoC) decoder in 1995. In a sector growing rapidly in size, diversity and technical complexity, ST continues to be the lea...

STMicroelectronics has announced the signing of an agreement with Bosch in which the world’s leading automotive electronic systems company will license ST’s state-of-the-art BCD8 process technology, enabling Bosch to design and manufacture highly integrated automotive products using this leading-edge technology in its own wafer fabrication plant. The move continues a close strategic partnership between the two companies extending over the l...

STMicroelectronics today announced a new solution extending its family of ultra-compact ‘low-g’ linear accelerometers. Its ultra-compact square footprint and low power consumption makes the LIS244AL motion-sensing device ideally suited for battery-powered portable applications, such as mobile phones, portable multimedia players or remote controls.

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the world’s largest supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes (STBs)*, today announced Korea Telecom’s (KT) launch of its new IPTV service using high-definition (HDTV) set-top boxes based on ST’s STi710x family of highly integrated HDTV decoder chips.

STMicroelectronics has introduced a family of energy-metering ICs that incorporate all of the core circuitry necessary to implement a complete meter system without requiring any other active component. The STPM1x family, measuring active energy as pulse frequency output and featuring fast digital calibration, provides electronic meter manufacturers with a complete, cost-effective series of power-metering chips specifically designed for low-end ap...

STMicroelectronics has announced it is providing the digital broadcasting chipset for SIRIUS Backseat TV, a ground-breaking TV service that delivers live TV from the best family TV programmers directly to vehicles. SIRIUS Backseat TV will be launched later this year in select 2008 model Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles. SIRIUS Backseat TV, which offers consumers three channels of family TV programming, can be received via an in-vehicle satellit...

STMicroelectronics has announced a new family of ultra-low-power touch-sensor chips, following the signing of a technology-licensing agreement with the Korean company ATLab, Inc. The sensors are intended for portable applications such as mobile phones, PDAs, notebook PCs and media players, as well as for the cost-sensitive white-goods market. The new ‘S-Touch’ family uses ATLab’s capacitive touch-sensing technology, which is based on a full...