ST’s Vigna wins IEEE award
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Past winners of the Frederik Philips Award include Gordon Moore of Intel, George Heilmeier of Texas Instruments, John Kelly of IBM and Roger Van Overstraeten and Gilbert Declerck, who both led European research institute IMEC.
Vigna joined ST’s R&D labs in 1995 and launched the company’s efforts in MEMS. In 2001 he became director of the MEMS business unit working on accelerometers and gyroscopes as ST made a commitment to the MEMS market. Since then ST reckons it has shipped more than 9 billion MEMS, sensors, and actuators to customers for consumer, automotive, and industrial applications. Vigna’s work on accelerometers and gyroscopes, and later on microphones and actuators, has produced over 170 patents representing MEMS technology and paved the way for almost 1000 more patents for ST’s MEMS innovations.
In 2014 ST’s net revenues were $7.40 billion.
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