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About Andrea Gallo

Andrea Gallo is the Director of the new Linaro Enterprise Group. Prior to this Andrea was very much involved with Linaro as part of our Technical Steering Committee. He was awarded this role with Linaro due to his great work as a Fellow and Chief Architect with ST-Ericsson. Andrea joined STMicroelectronics in 1995 and covered many roles and products, including the world first dial-up 56kbps USB Pegas.usB softmodem in 1998, the world first ADSL USB/PCI controllerless modem in 2000 and many products and prototypes based on ST Nomadik Application Processor. Andrea set up and managed STM Linux Software Platform team in Bangalore, including recruitment and software engineering process, and then moved into ST-Ericsson when the JV between ST and Ericsson Mobile Platform was created. As a teenager, Andrea wrote software in Basic, Z80 and ARM assembler and C published by English and Italian magazines and Public Domain Libraries and also attended two summer time trainee programs in July 1987 and 1988 at Acorn Computers in Cambridge (UK) on the just released ARM2 processor, few years before the creation of ARM Ltd itself.

First Android LEB available on Snowball

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

Another quarter has passed, another face-to-face summit is ongoing within Linaro and the team has once again impressive achievements to show! At ST-Ericsson we are particularly excited about the availability of the latest 3.0 Linux kernel on Snowball – fully … Continue reading →

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The Linaro Developers Summit last week in Budapest was really impressive!

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

I attended the Linaro developers summit in Budapest last week with a number of my colleagues. With ten technical tracks in parallel you can imagine there was a huge amount of invaluable information being shared. I was amazed by the spirit … Continue reading →

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ST-Ericsson and Linaro, working towards the first release

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Open source has become an important driving force in the smartphone industry and a particularly key area of focus for ST-Ericsson. We believe that open innovation is critical to face the increasing demand on features and the broadening scope of … Continue reading →

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