ACORN POACHES DESIGN TEAM FROM ST MICROELECTRONICS.Acorn Group Plc has poached poach 1 tr.v. poached, poach·ing, poach·es To cook in a boiling or simmering liquid: Poach the fish in wine. a key design team from ST Microelectronics microelectronics, branch of electronic technology devoted to the design and development of extremely small electronic devices that consume very little electric power. to be the core of a new system on a chip center the company plans to base in Bristol, UK. The seven-strong team, which was working on the Hitachi 64-bit SH4 RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. microprocessor at ST, is headed by Simon Knowles, who becomes vice president of silicon design at Acorn. The company will develop products for set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. makers and other consumer electronics devices. Acorn's new facility is expected to be operational by February. |
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