STMicroelectronics' Digital Satellite Broadcast Chips Enable In-Vehicle SIRIUS Backseat TV(TM)

SIRIUS Satellite Radio digital video receiver provides consumers with high-quality reception in several new Chrysler Group vehicles

GENEVA, June 27, 2007 -- STMicroelectronics today announced it is providing the digital broadcasting chipset for SIRIUS Backseat TV(TM), a ground-breaking TV service that delivers live TV from the best family TV programmers directly to vehicles. SIRIUS Backseat TV will be launched later this year in select 2008 model Chrysler, Jeep(R) and Dodge vehicles.

SIRIUS Backseat TV, which offers consumers three channels of family TV programming, can be received via an in-vehicle satellite video receiver and two small roof-mounted antennas. The SIRIUS Backseat TV digital audio and video signal is broadcast over the same frequency spectrum allocation as SIRIUS radio.

The core of the in-vehicle satellite video receiver, which is manufactured by Delphi for SIRIUS, is based on three ST chips: the STA210 RF tuner IC; the STA240 channel, service and source decoder IC; and the STA264 advanced hierarchical demodulator chip, which extracts the video stream and performs error correction on the received signal.

ST has been a strong partner with SIRIUS since 2004 in the development of its radio receiver chipsets.

"SIRIUS is dedicated to delivering the best in-vehicle entertainment available anywhere," said James E. Meyer, SIRIUS President, Operations and Sales. "ST is helping us deliver a high-quality entertainment experience to make our new SIRIUS Backseat TV the Best TV in the Backseat."

"SIRIUS is a major player in the automotive entertainment field and its choice of ST's chips to provide the core of this new in-vehicle TV receiver is a significant endorsement of ST's digital broadcast expertise," said Ugo Carena, Corporate VP and General Manager of ST's Automotive Product Group. "ST's has leveraged its digital radio design expertise, world-class manufacturing machine and know-how in System-on-Chip technology to deliver leading-edge solutions to the fast-growing US in-vehicle entertainment market."

ST has been at the forefront of digital broadcast radio technology for more than ten years and is now the world's leading supplier of the microchip components that power the digital radio receivers made by leading consumer and automotive radio manufacturers. Specifically in the US digital satellite radio market, ST is also the chip supplier for XM Radio receivers, in addition to SIRIUS digital satellite radios.