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To: WISDOM MILES who wrote (38836)	2/6/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: QuietWon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Cool name, miles of wisdom!

To: WISDOM MILES who wrote (38836)	2/6/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

SGS Thomson wins last Q............................. st.com Digital Consumer In the Digital Consumer field, the fourth quarter saw ST consolidate its leading position in many key application areas, with major new design wins and the ramping up to volume production of many earlier design-in successes. For example, in the Set-Top Box (STB) market, ST confirmed its early leadership in Digital Cable STB by being awarded the next generations of ICs (Front-end and Back-end) by the leading suppliers of the US cable industry, including the back end of Scientific Atlanta's second generation STB. Capitalizing on previous design wins in all the major satellite services, ST also shipped large quantities of STB chips based on its highly successful ST20 core. To date, more than 5 million units have been shipped to customers around the world, including more than one million of the STi5500 (“OMEGA”) fully integrated STB back-end chips. In Europe, over 2 million devices were shipped for Canal+ and BSkyB STB systems. Furthermore, Thomson Multimedia began to successfully ship its Divx(TM) DVD player that is also based on the ST OMEGA Back-End chip.