Questions Over ST's Digital Business
October 29, 2014
Ominously for the digital business at ST, the CEO made two statements at its Q3 results announcement, first thst ST would implement $100 million in annualised savings at its loss-making digital business, and second that it is “reviewing the implications to our process technology following the recent announcements by our research alliance partners.”
This could refer to the announcements by IBM, which supplies ST with its basic process technology, that it is getting out of microelectronics and sell its factories to Globalfoundries. The implications for IBM’s microelectronics R&D activity are not yet publicly known.
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