Numonyx

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Numonyx
Type	Private
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Rolle, Switzerland
Key people	Brian Harrison, CEO Mario Licciardello, COO
Industry	Semiconductors
Revenue	▲ USD- million (2008)
Employees	6000-8000
Website	www.Numonyx.com

Numonyx^TM is the name of a semiconductor company focused on flash memories, which has been founded on March 31, 2008 by Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics and Francisco Partners.

Numonyx has been created from the key assets of businesses that in 2006 generated approximately $3.6 billion in combined annual revenue. The company focuses on supplying non-volatile memory solutions for a variety of consumer and industrial devices including cellular phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, computers and other high-tech equipment.

Numonyx combines key research and development, manufacturing and sales and marketing assets of Intel and STMicroelectronics into a streamlined worldwide structure with the scale to produce cost-effective and innovative non-volatile memory solutions. With STMicroelectronics and Intel contributing more than 40 years of combined experience in non-volatile memory technology development, including next-generation phase-change memory, the company is well positioned to both serve its customers with complete memory solutions and accelerate the move to future non-volatile memory technologies.

Numonyx is managed by Brian Harrison, CEO of Numonyx and former vice president and general manager of Intel’s Flash Memory Group, and Mario Licciardello, COO of Numonyx and former corporate vice president and general manager of STMicroelectronics’ Flash Memories Group.

Numonyx is headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland, and has sales, manufacturing and R&D facilities around the world.