Paul - FYI: Comments from STMicro Grand Poobah Pasquale Pistorio
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With regard to x86 strategy (Bold is mine):
Q: You're not interested in buying Cyrix, are you?
A: [Laughs.] National bought them already.
Q: Well, then, are you satisfied with your x86 strategy? What's the status?
A: We have said that it is not our priority, but it is an interesting complement, and since the beginning, we wanted to do system-on-a-chip but not face Intel. We developed a single-chip PC with an x86 core, and we carved a nice niche in the market with a Web navigator. So we are getting some-but nothing dramatic-returns.
Well, I guess STM is now on Scumbria's sh-- list, since Pasquale isn't into jeopardizing his sucessful and profitable business taking on the evil empire in x86.
Now, Pasquale on FLASH:
...ST is “extremely well positioned to be No. 2 in the year 2000,” he said. “And then we will be challenging No. 1, Intel. But this will take a little bit longer to do.”
OOOPS! Here's a rallying for Scumbria! Note, however, the absence of AMD in even this aspect of the conversation. Didn't AMD want to be #1 in FLASH too? Another casuality of the CPU wars, along with Vantis, Networking, HQ, etc.
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