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Website: www.freescale.com
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500®, is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).
Freescale processors containing PowerPC® cores provide an ideal foundation for embedded applications ranging from networking and communications to pervasive computing. Since its inception in 1991, the scalable, advanced PowerPC architecture was designed to meet the diverse needs of system solutions ranging from general-purpose microprocessors to high-performance, highly integrated communications and host processors. PowerPC processors from Freescale offer a combination of compelling price/performance, extended temperature options, multiprocessing capabilities, high integration, instruction set compatibility across product lines, and a broad and growing ecosystem of development tools. Freescale processors based on PowerPC cores include the PowerQUICC™ family of communications processors, high-performance MPC7448 host processors and the innovative dual-core MPC8641D processor.
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