FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of March 2002
STMicroelectronics N.V.
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Enclosures:
A press release dated March 19, 2002 announcing STMicroelectronics' appointment
of Andrea Cuomo as Corporate Vice President for Advanced System Technology.
PRESS RELEASE
COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE
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PRESSEINFORMATION
PR No. C1155H
STMicroelectronics Appoints Andrea Cuomo as
Corporate Vice President for Advanced System Technology
Geneva, March 19, 2002 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the world's third
largest independent semiconductor manufacturer, has appointed Andrea Cuomo as
Corporate Vice President and Advanced System Technology General Manager,
reporting directly to Pasquale Pistorio, President and CEO.
The appointment reflects the important contribution made by the Advanced System
Technology group (AST) in positioning ST at the forefront of system-level
integration and Intellectual Properly (IP) creation. AST was established in
January 1999, with the mission to develop the advanced architectures that would
drive key strategic applications such as digital consumer, wireless
communications, computer peripherals and smart cards, as well as the broad range
of emerging automotive applications such as car multimedia. The group has played
a key role in establishing ST's pre-eminence in mobility, connectivity,
multimedia, storage and security, the core competences required to drive today's
convergence markets.
"AST's challenge is to distill the expertise and expectations of our customers,
our industrial and academic partners, our Central R&D team and our internal
product groups into a cohesive and practical vision that defines the vision and
the system technologies, including hardware, software and system integration
skills, that ST will need in the next three to five years and the ways in which
we will acquire and master them," explained Cuomo.
Notable successes achieved by AST in its first three years include solutions for
simultaneous MPEG2 encoding and decoding, targeting writable-DVD and Personal
Video Recording applications; a baseline and RF architecture for 3G mobile
systems; system solutions for imaging applications, solutions for channel coding
and co-decoding for Digital TV.
Research projects with research partners included the development with Telia
Research of the Zipper-VDSL (Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line) system
for next-generation communications and the successful development with HP Labs
of a scalable and customizable VLIW micro core. These breakthrough technologies
are now being developed for commercial production in the near future.
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With Andrea Cuomo's appointment to Corporate VP, AST has also been given
responsibility for the design of all new generations of general purpose
microprocessors and DSP cores, along with their related compilers. This will
ensure that ST's range of standalone and embedded processors, already one of the
widest in the industry, will continue to offer customers the optimum trade-off
between price, performance and time-to-market, in all applications.
"As more and more of our customers' systems are implemented in our SoC silicon,
we have to ensure that they have guaranteed portability between different
applications, full compatibility of tool chains and exciting roadmaps for future
product innovation," said Cuomo.
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics, the world's third largest independent semiconductor company,
is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across
the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivalled combination of
silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP)
portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of
System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling
today's convergence markets. The Company's shares are traded on the New York
Stock Exchange, on Euronext Paris and on the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2001, the
Company's net revenues were $6.36 billion and net earnings were $257.1 million.
Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
For further information, please contact:
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STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics
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Morgen Walke Europe Morgen Walke Europe
Lorie Lichtlen Nicole Curtin / Jean-Benoit Roquette
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ANDREA CUOMO
CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL MANAGER
ADVANCED SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY
STMICROELECTRONICS
Andrea Cuomo was born in Milan, Italy in 1954 and studied at the Milano
"Politecnico" in Nuclear Sciences, with a special focus on analog electronics.
He joined the Italian semiconductor manufacturer SGS in 1983 as a System Testing
Engineer and, from 1985 to 1988, he held various positions up to Marketing
Manager in the automotive, computer and industrial product segments within the
Monolithic Microsystems Division of SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics, the company
created in 1997 from the merger of SGS and Thomson Semiconducteurs (re?named
STMicroelectronics in 1998). In 1989, when the Division became the Dedicated
Products Group, Andrea Cuomo was appointed head of Strategy and Market
Development. A special mission he has covered since then has been that of
developing strategic alliances with top customers.
In 1994, he was appointed Vice-President responsible for Marketing and Strategic
Accounts within the Headquarters and European region. In this position he had
responsibility for corporate strategic marketing, which identifies future
semiconductor trends and which develops advanced systems, also combining the
diversified know-how and wide range technologies of the company. He also had
responsibility for sales to the company's strategic accounts.
Building on this experience, in October 1998 he was appointed Vice-President
responsible for the newly created corporate organization called Advanced System
Technology (AST), with the mission to develop the advanced architectures that
drive key strategic applications such as digital consumer, wireless
communications, computer peripherals and smart cards, as well as the broad range
of emerging automotive applications such as car multimedia. Under his
leadership, AST has played a key role in the creation of system knowledge to
support ST's system-on-chip (SoC) development and has made a major contribution
in establishing ST's pre-eminence in Mobility, Connectivity, Multimedia, Storage
and Security, the core competences required to drive today's Convergence
markets.
With Andrea Cuomo's appointment to Corporate Vice-President, General Manager, in
January 2002, AST has the additional responsibility for the design of all new
generations of general purpose microprocessors and DSP cores, along with their
related compilers. He continues to initiate collaborative projects with
customers, top-class universities and research institutions.
March 2002
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
STMicroelectronics N.V. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: March 19, 2002 STMicroelectronics N.V.
By: /s/ Pasquale Pistorio
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Name: Pasquale Pistorio
Title: President and Chief
Executive Officer