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Design Centers

  • Bristol, UK: approx. 200 employees. This R&D site was built for the British company Inmos which in 1978 began development of the famous Transputer microprocessor. The site was acquired with Inmos in 1994, and is now primarily involved with the design of home video products (Set-Top Box, DVD) and GPS chips, and accompanying software.
  • Rabat, Morocco: A design center that employs 160 people.
  • Naples, Italy: A Design center employing 300 people.
  • Lecce, Italy: HW & SW Design Center which hosts 20 researchers in the Advanced System Technology group.
  • Ang Mo Kio, Singapore: In 1970, SGS created its first assembly back-end plant in Singapore, in the area of Toa Payoh. Then in 1981, SGS decided to build a wafer fab in Singapore. The Singapore technical engineers have been trained in Italy and the fab of Ang Mo Kio started to produce its first wafers in 1984. Converted up to 8 inch (200 mm) fab, this is now an important 8 inch (200 mm) wafer fab of the ST group. Ang Mo Kio also hosts design centers for various groups.
  • Greater Noida, India: The Noida site was launched in 1992 to conduct software engineering activities. A silicon design center was inaugurated on 14 February 1995. With 120 employees, it was the largest design center of the company outside Europe at the time. In 2006, the site was shifted to Greater Noida for further expansion. The site hosts mainly design teams. It is now primarily involved with the design of home video products (Set-Top Box, DVD), GPS and Wireless LAN chips, and accompanying software. World wide Data center support is also transferred to Greater Noida in 2004. The employee strength in Greater Noida is around 2000. This also includes employees of ST-Ericsson.
  • San Jose, California, (Silicon Valley), USA): 120 staff in marketing, design and applications.
  • La Jolla, California, (San Diego, USA): 80 staff in design and applications.
  • Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.: Application, support, and marketing.
  • Prague, Czech Republic: 100 to 200 employees. Application, design and support.
  • Tunis, Tunisia: 300 employees. Support, Application, TR&D, design and support.
  • Sophia Antipolis, near Nice, France: Design center with a few hundred employees.
  • Edinburgh, Scotland: Design center.
  • Grasbrunn, Germany: Design & Application Center.
  • Ottawa, Canada: In 1993, SGS-Thomson purchased the semiconductor activities of Nortel which owned in Ottawa an R&D center and a fab. The fab was closed in 2000, however, a design, R&D centre and sales office is operating in the city.
  • Toronto, Canada: HW & SW Design Center primarily involved with the design of video processor ICs as part of ST's TVM Division.
  • Palermo, Sicily, Italy: Design Center.
  • Bangalore, India: HW and SW design center employing more than 250 people (Including the employees of ST Ericsson and Genesis Microchip).
  • Zaventem, Belgium: 100 employees. Design & Application Center.
  • Helsinki, Finland: Design Center.
  • Turku, Finland: Design Center.
  • Oulu, Finland: Design Center.
  • Tampere, Finland: Design Center.
  • Longmont, Colorado USA: Design Center.

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