Together with mobile communications, the digital consumer semiconductor products sector should be the biggest beneficiary of convergence, with a projected average com-pound annual growth rate for the next five years as high as 24%. We have become the leading provider of semiconductors to this sector by taking early leadership in MPEG-2, building strong relationships with all key players, and developing a world-class portfolio of processor cores, each of which is supported by a full complement of software and development tools. From the ST20 Ñthe de facto standard for todayÕs STB and DVD equipment Ñto the new SuperH and ST210 cores, ST offers a full spectrum of processor architectures that allow its customers to optimize the critical trade-offs between price, power consumption, performance and time-to-market.

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