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Freescale joins IBM in semiconductor alliance
News Freescale Semiconductor, formerly Motorola's chip group, will join a semiconductor technology alliance largely headed by IBM. Under the alliance, Freescale will participate in developing rules and technology for manufacturing 45nm (nanometre) chips.
[January 23, 2007, 8:31]
Freescale aims Android at embedded kit
News Freescale Semiconductor has begun taking orders for a Power Architecture development platform for Android-based products, opening a new category of embedded devices to Google's open-source mobile operating system.
[October 29, 2009, 16:10]
Freescale and ARM promise £140 netbooks
News Freescale, which used to be Motorola's semiconductor wing, is in the process of selling off its business making modem chipsets for traditional handsets, Cammal said. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on Monday unveiled an ARM-based blueprint for cheap...
[January 5, 2009, 16:16]
Driving PowerPC forward
News Recently, Freescale signed a multiyear electronics design partnership with Cadence Design Systems and also acquired CommASIC, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego that specialises in combining multiple wireless networking...
[December 8, 2005, 13:45]
Magnetic memory chips come to market
News Freescale Semiconductor has won the race to get a magnetic form of computer memory to market, but its high price could keep it from appearing in machines in the near future. MRAM is faster than most other types of computer memory; Freescale's chip...
[July 11, 2006, 8:20]
Chipset brings fibre closer to homes
News Freescale Semiconductor, a spinoff of Motorola, has developed an integrated chipset that it says will make it easier and less expensive for carriers to bring fibre access to homes and small businesses.
[June 22, 2004, 9:15]
UWB chips debut with gigabit wireless in sight
News Motorola's semiconductor division, Freescale, has announced availability of its first ultrawideband (UWB) wireless chipsets, with parts to be available to manufacturers by the end of June and consumer products expected by the end of 2004.
[June 7, 2004, 15:45]
MontaVista shows one-second Linux boot
News At the Virtual Freescale Technology Forum on Tuesday, MontaVista demonstrated an application running on MontaVista Linux Professional Edition and Freescale Semiconductor MPC5121e hardware. MontaVista Software has demonstrated its embedded Linux...
[July 15, 2009, 16:58]
UWB products to debut despite standards stalemate
News Freescale Semiconductor, formerly a Motorola unit, and chipmaker Intel are backing competing incompatible blueprints for UWB. However, history is strewn with products that debut sometimes years ahead of standard approval, according to Diane Orr, a...
[January 6, 2005, 9:00]
Spansion sees profits in flash memory's future
News MRAM, a type of memory supported by Freescale Semiconductor and IBM, may not get beyond the 65nm processes in widespread use today. NAND is the killer app," Mike Splinter, chief executive of Applied Materials, which makes semiconductor equipment...
[November 29, 2007, 14:05]
IEEE Job Site Search
Downloads The IEEE Job Site is regularly updated with exclusive job postings from companies in a broad range of industries — Northrop Grumman, BP Solar, Freescale Semiconductor, Microsoft, and Google, just to name a few.
[July 9, 2008, 8:00]
Ultrawideband kicks off at CES
News Freescale, the semiconductor company spun out of Motorola last year, said that its Cable-Free USB (CF-USB) technology would be used inside devices that Belkin and Gefen will launch later this year. Freescale's major rivals for UWB, the WiMedia...
[January 4, 2006, 16:25]
Future of netbooks revealed at Computex
News While Snapdragon competitor Freescale Semiconductor, which makes an ARM-based iMX515 processor, predicts hybrid smartbooks that will look like tablets, others see them being even-more-portable netbooks.
[June 4, 2009, 10:11]
RIM picks Intel for future BlackBerrys
News Companies such as Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung and STMicroelectronics license the architecture for various consumer electronics products. Ending months of speculation, Research In Motion, maker of...
[September 28, 2005, 9:45]
Intel-powered Mac mini may be close
News The move to Intel marked a tectonic shift for Apple, which had previously used processors from IBM and Motorola — now Freescale Semiconductor. Analyst Ben Reitzez of UBS Investment has triggered speculation about Apple's latest Intel-based...
[November 9, 2005, 16:40]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog We finish the evening at Freescale Semiconductor's party. Tuesday 14/02/2006. Night. At 3GSM, every night is party night - but Tuesday is the biggest of the lot. By now, the many UK trade hacks have formed into an ad-hoc team capable of draining...
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Apple makes the move to Intel
News The move to Intel marks a tectonic shift for Apple, which has used processors from IBM and Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) throughout the life of the Mac. After years of trying to get people to switch to Macs from Intel-based computers...
[June 7, 2005, 9:40]
OpenVZ virtualisation comes to Power chips
News IBM and Freescale Semiconductor make Power processors. SWsoft programmers have created a version of the OpenVZ Linux virtualisation software that works on Power processors, the company plans to announce on Friday.
[October 13, 2006, 9:40]
Apple machine on display at IDF
News Apple has resisted demands to move away from the PowerPC chips made by IBM and Freescale Semiconductor. It's not the product some have been hoping for, but there is already one Apple machine that has "Intel Inside".
[March 4, 2005, 8:30]
IBM changes directions in magnetic memory
News Freescale Semiconductor has released MRAM chips commercially, but has recently expressed doubt about the technology's longevity. At the Flash Memory Summit last week, Freescale's David Bondurant said MRAM "may not go beyond" 65nm.
[August 20, 2007, 9:45]
