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  • Shaky semi industry propped up by wireless boom

    Some firms, such as Texas Instruments and Freescale, are already targeting the market, while companies like PicoChip and Broadcom are also readying scaled up versions of system on chip devices from femto bases.
  • Freescale turns troll

    Freescale Semiconductor has turned into a troll and beaten a path to the US International Trade Commission claiming that MediaTek, Top Victory Electronics and AmTran Technology have nicked its ideas.
  • Freescale embarks on patent rampage

    Freescale is furious at Taiwan's MediaTek, among others, and is filing patent infringement complaints with the US ITC.
  • Supremes reject challenge to Tessera win

    In 2009 the ITC decided that the Tessera patents were valid, and it told Qualcomm, Spansion, STMicroelectronics, Freescale Semiconductor and ATI to stop bringing them into the US.
  • Driverless cars on our roads by 2020

    This means that there will likely be less deaths on the road each year as chip technologies come to fruition.  And this is likely to be particularly pertinent in developing parts of the world, where there are more motoring accidents, and where high end sensor-covered cars are extremely rare, as Free
  • Semiconductors can stop road deaths

    International Electronics Forum 2011Chips can reduce road deaths and will save more lives in the future. That, along with healthcare and other applications was the chief message from Jean-Christophe Bodet, application engineering director at Freescale.
  • Freescale expects worse Q3

    Freescale Semiconductor has lowered its quarterly outlook, ending 30 September.
  • China becomes largest auto MEMS market

    The lion's share of MEMS in China, though, is German Bosch GmbH. It has a deal with Freescale for airbags.
  • Intel, Marvell, Freescale sued over power management

    LawA case started in a Delaware District Court accusing Freescale, Marvell and Intel of infringing a power management patent.
  • Freescale kicks off at MediaTek

    Freescale is going after MediaTek, among others, accusing it of infringing on TV chip patents.
  • SIA finally releases semiconductor fab capacity report

    “Either then the fab is never reopened (Freescale) or comes back active (Renesas) and the capacity jumps back up again, albeit not to the same level.
  • ARM support is a mess in Linux land

    ARM manufacturers realise the state they have gotten themselves into. They formed the non-profit Linaro consortium to sort out the mess. Names connected to the consortium include Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, Texas Instruments, and ARM.
  • Rambus buries patent hatchet with Freescale

    Rambus has made a licensing deal with Freescale, which means the semiconductor company can use some of Rambus's many patents for memory controllers and serial links in its logic integrated circuit (IC) products.
  • Apple buys up 200 wireless patents

    Fruity cargo cult Apple had got the pundits speculating after it wrote a  large cheque to buy more than 200 wireless patents from Freescale.
  • MEMS industry recovers from Japanese trauma

    However, it's not just Japanese companies making parts in the country, with other firms including Freescale Semiconductor, Knowles Electronics, Goodrich Corp. and Texas Instruments all setting up shop here too. If the effects of the quake had hit MEMS then of course these would have been affected.
  • Anand Chandrasekher leaves Intel while HP headhunting becomes industry sport

    Wolfe has a lot of experience as a corporate axeman and is wanted by AMD to reduce operating costs and "significantly improving business innovation." Before HP, he worked at Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor.
  • Aftershocks mean Japanese semi production stalled

    Japan's earthquake and tsunamiFreescale
  • Microsoft is the most ethical company in the known cosmos

    Missing from the list are Oracle, HP, Intel, IBM, and Apple. Oracle was there in 2009 and seems to have slipped off. Oddly HP was also there the year before, despite being involved with snooping on hacks and the time. Other exits from the 2009 list include Intel and Freescale.

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