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  • 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.
  • 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.

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