 By this time, the company had been sold to SGS-Thomson (now STMicroelectronics), whose focus was the embedded systems market, and eventually the T9000 project was abandoned.However, a comprehensively redesigned 32-bit transputer intended for embedded applications, the "ST20" series, was later produced, using some technology developed for the T9000.The ST20 core was incorporated into chipsets for set-top box and Global Positioning System (GPS) applications.