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Smartcard and Secure Solutions


Smart Card technology was used in relatively few applications, such as pay-TV, payphones and mobiles. Today, it is one of the most rapidly growing technologies in the world, offering major benefits to almost every sector of industry, from telecommunications to transportation, m-commerce to medicine.
Historically, ST's world-class range of microchips has played a major role in this growth, by helping solution suppliers achieve the twin imperatives of high security and commercial viability.

Applications
Access Control
Finance
e-Government
Track & Trace
Mobile Communications
Pay TV & Content Protection
Public Telephony
Secure Identification
Transport

Feature Products

ST22FJ1M32-bit SmartJ™ chip with 1Mbyte Flash memory set to power new applications
Geneva, November 20, 2003 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) has announced that it is now sampling the ST22FJ1M, an advanced 32-bit smart card processor with 1Mbyte of embedded Flash memory, to key customers.
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New secure Trusted Platform Module benefits from ST's security expertise, and is backward compatible with the existing Trusted Computing Group 1.1b standard

Geneva, April 28, 2004 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) announces the introduction of a personal computer security solution meeting the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) 1.2 specification, which was published in November 2003. The TCG is a broad alliance of major hardware and software companies which aims to create more secure computing environments through the use of hardware building blocks and cross-platform software interfaces, without compromising functional integrity, privacy or individual rights.

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