Partner Press Release
STMicroelectronics Outlines Vision for Greater Efficiency in the E-Business Supply-Chain
RosettaNet standards central to ST's vision to further integrate the information and e-Business Supply-chain, providing significant benefits to partner companies
For Release
October 10, 2000
GENEVA
STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) today outlined its vision for greater supply-chain efficiency
and provided further commitment to the development of RosettaNet standards for information exchange
and e-Business. ST's vision for e-Business supports the approach of extending supply-chain
integration and adopting industry standards as a key enabler. ST is working to implement these
standards with its partners, which will benefit from substantial reductions in time to access key
information and make transactions over the Internet.
ST is focusing its initial efforts on implementing the Query Electronics Components Technical
Information PIP 2A9 (Partner Interface Process), which the company believes is the first phase of a
new way of streamlining the design cycle with partners, by allowing customers to retrieve key data
from suppliers' databases. For example, EDA software in different formats including Verilog, VHDL
and TDML will be available. This improved access potentially could shorten the design cycle of ST's
customers by several weeks.
In addition, an aggressive implementation of the Design Win Management PIP 5Cx will allow ST to
offer standard design win registrations to its distributors starting in February 2001. Quote and
order entry, already widely used with EDI technology by ST, will be possible by Q1 2001 in
compliance with the Quote & Order Entry PIP 3Ax.
Jean-Claude Monney, Corporate e-Business & IT Director, STMicroelectronics, and a member of
the RosettaNet EC Board, said: "STMicroelectronics is actively supporting the developments of
RosettaNet standards. The work that we are doing will benefit our customers by greatly reducing the
time required to access key product and technology data."
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics (formerly SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics) is a global independent
semiconductor company, whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on the Paris Bourse
and on the Milan Stock Exchange. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad
range of semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) and discrete devices used in a wide variety of
microelectronic applications, including telecommunications systems, computer systems, consumer
products, automotive products and industrial automation and control systems. In 1999, the Company's
net revenues were $5.056 billion and net earnings were $547 million. Further information on ST can
be found at
www.st.com.
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Alessandro Brenna
STMicroelectronics Investor Relations Europe
Director of Investor Relations
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Maria Grazia Prestini
Press Relations
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Steve Harrison
Investor Relations USA
Director of Investor Relations
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manufacturing risks, (iv) inability to achieve timely ramp up of new production capacity, (v) the
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requirements, and (vii) currency fluctuations. Unfavorable changes in any of the above or other
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