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Freescale cooks up tiny ARM chip for you to eat
Freescale Semiconductor claims to have created the world's smallest ARM-powered chip which has been designed to be swallowed. -
Freescale boss predicts more doom
Freescale Semiconductor boss chief executive Gregg Lowe sees more trials and tribulations for the chip industry and admits that any cunning plans he has to save his company will not pay off until 2015. -
Renesas gets government bailout
Renesas, which has been a big name in providing chips for cars, was formed from the struggling chip divisions of its major shareholding companies Hitachi, Mitsubishi and NEC. Needless to say, piling all that amount of hurt under one roof did make people wonder. -
Rambus loses patent suit against LSI and STMicroelectronics
The battle began back in December 2010 when Rambus went on a suing spree - filing patent infringement suits left, right and centre. In its firing line were Freescale, Broadcom, MediaTek and Nvidia, which were forced to settle and sign licence agreement deals. -
Freescale looks to former Texas Instruments man to replace CEO
Freescale has appointed former Texas Instruments man Gregg Lowe as the firm’s new CEO, with Lowe responsible for steadying the ship after the firm's initial public offering last year. -
Freescale and AMD draw their blades
Intel is going to face some serious competition next year when Freescale and ARM start to take it on in its home turf. -
Indian government gets interest from chipmakers
The government's Department of Electronics and IT (DEITy) said that feelers had been sent to TSMC, Intel and Freescale. -
Low emission standards to open the door for MEMS auto market
Although companies which design and manufacture MEMS are trying their best to introduce devices and features which they hope will save lives, Freescale's global automotive strategy manager, Marc Osajda, added weight to the claims that safety is driving in-vehicle MEMS. -
ARM touts Internet of Things-ready Cortex M0+
Early licencees include Freescale and NXP. In a statement, senior VP of Freescales automotive, industrial and multi-market group, Reza Kazerounian, said ARM's processor will make the company's Kinetis MCU "one of the industry's most scalable portfolios based on the ARM Cortex architecture." Thanks t -
Freescale sticks a mobile base station on a chip
Freescaleis showing off technology which stuffs an entire cellular base station onto a single chip. -
Rivals pick at AMD's bones
Read has been doing his best to bring new people into the fold. There has been processor designer Mark Papermaster, a veteran of IBM, Apple, and Cisco. Lisa Su, who had run Freescale's networking and multimedia processor businesses. Su is now general manager of AMD's global business units. -
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.
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