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GENEVA and MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Preventice,( )Inc.(TM), a leading developer of mobile health solutions and remote monitoring systems, announced today that ST is providing wearable body sensor technologies to power the new BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring System (RMS)(TM)( )from Preventice. Preventice recently announced its receipt of...

HSINCHU, Taiwan, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303) ("UMC"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced a collaborative effort with STMicroelectronics for 65nm CMOS image sensor technology using backside illumination (BSI). The partnership follows upon the two companies' success to manufacture ST's front-side illumination (FSI) processes at UMC's 300mm Fab 12i in Singapore. The 1.1um pixel BSI process, which...

GENEVA, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. First quarter net revenues decreased 8% to $2.02 billion on a sequential basis, while gross margin was 29.6%, absorbing anticipated unsaturation charges related to fab loading and a one-time unexpected charge resulting from an arbitration award. President and CEO Carlo Bozotti commented, "ST's wholly-owned businesses in the first...

GENEVA, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced today the next step in its multimedia convergence strategy, which will focus on offering a single application processing platform to serve a broad range of multimedia devices like set-top-boxes, TVs, cars, smartphones and tablets. ST signed an agreement with ST-Ericsson on the development of future...

GENEVA, Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, today announced that Carlo Ferro has accepted to focus on the turnaround of ST-Ericsson as chief operating officer of the company. "I have been working closely with Carlo in his role as ST's chief financial officer for the past six years," said Carlo Bozotti, ST president and chief executive officer. "I am confident...

GENEVA, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has announced that for the third year in succession it has been ranked among the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations" by Corporate Knights(1), a company dedicated to promoting "clean capitalism." In the 2012 list announced on January 25, ST advanced 8 places to the 75th place on the list, compared to No. 83 in...

PARIS, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. President and CEO Carlo Bozotti commented, "In 2011, our wholly-owned businesses delivered a solid performance throughout the year, within the backdrop of a severe slowdown in the broader semiconductor market as the year evolved. ST's wholly-owned businesses delivered revenue of $8.2 billion and an operating margin of...

GENEVA, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is showcasing its latest-generation connected home platform in Las Vegas during the world's largest Consumer Electronics Show. Codenamed Orly when first revealed to the market in September 2011, the world's most powerful connected home system on chip, now designated STiH416, is implemented in a 28 nm...

GENEVA, Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for consumer and portable applications,[1] today unveiled a smart suit prototype with sewn-in new multi-sensor ST iNEMO(®) motion co-processor that recognize complex movements of the wearer's body and translate them to a digital model with...

GENEVA, Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for consumer and portable applications[1], has introduced the market's first dual-core gyroscope capable of handling both user-motion recognition and camera image stabilization. With the innovative system architecture of the ST device, equipment...