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To: John Rieman who wrote (49679)	7/18/2000 5:38:08 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

From STM's earnings report..... << In the Digital Consumer area, ST has been confirmed as the number one worldwide supplier of DVD back-end chips in 1999 by market research firm Instat. Further strengthening this leadership, ST introduced in Q2 a new DVD decoder/host processor chip, the STi5508, that offers all the functions of the popular STi5505 along with enhanced audio and video features, including a powerful Karaoke processor and MP3 decoder. The STi5508 has been designed into DVD drives of major Asian manufacturers. In set-top boxes, ST was the only semiconductor company at the USA National Association of Broadcasters show NAB2000 in Las Vegas to demonstrate advanced Personal Video Recording (PVR) and Hard Disk Drive capability, on its STi5512 product family, in conjunction with NDS Group. In May, ST announced a license agreement with France Telecom that gives ST worldwide rights to exploit France Telecom's patented Turbo Code Forward Error Correction technology. This allows the information carrying capacity of a communications system to be substantially increased and could dramatically affect the Digital Satellite TV market by significantly increasing the number of TV channels broadcast by existing satellites. Additional key product introductions included the STV0399, the world's first device for digital satellite receiver/set top box to integrate a Zero IF tuner, a multistandard demodulator (QPSK and 8-PSK) and a Forward Error Correction (FEC) block in a single CMOS chip. At the Mediacast 2000 show, ST and Netergy Networks demonstrated their jointly developed voice-and-data-over-cable solution for set-top boxes. The demonstration platform incorporates Netergy Networks VoIP embedded software running on early architectural prototypes of ST's STV0396 DOCSIS 1.1 compliant single chip cable modem and the STV0397 PacketCable compliant VoIP co-processor.>>