New digital circuits at Thomson semiconductor in France

DCS, Thomson Semiconductors' Semi-Standard Circuits Department, has just announced a CMOS gate array with up to 4,200 gates, standard cells, and a unique 900-component, 3 GHz linear gate array. All of Thomson's gate arrays are supported by Daisy, Valid and Mentor workstations. These are the first fruits of a reorganization begun several months ago to distance the department from the actual design and manufacture of integrated circuits, making it more of an archestrator among customers, workstation manufacturers, independent designers and the various Thomson Semiconductors division. Thomson Semiconductors' silicon sales based on DCS contracts totaled 25,000,000 Frances in 1984. This figure should be double in 1985. Thomson Semiconductors plans to offer 120 new integrated circuits this year, twice the number available in 1984. At the same time, the Munich design center and the American subsidiary, VSI, should open new markets in 1985, bringing exports to an estimated 30 percent of sales.