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Freescale Semiconductor 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.

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SIA holds yearly council and drafts global chip tariff policy
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Executives from leading companies in the semiconductor industry laid the groundwork for lobbying governments to completely eliminate tariffs on chips.

TCL to launch motion-controlled Android TV first in China
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Among the most common misconceptions about China's CE market is that the role of local vendors is to build cut-rate TV sets sold at lower prices that Chinese consumers can afford.

Teardown Report: Chevy Volt's electronic secrets
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Beyond battery chemistry, and electric propulsion and control, this enhanced-range electric vehicle was designed for upgrades, ruggedness, and diagnostics—with attention to quality in its construction.

Freescale snags Insight Award for process technology
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Technical analysts and consulting firm UBM TechInsights chose Freescale Semiconductor to receive the Most Innovative Process Technology Insight Award for its PK60X256VLQ100 Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller.

A Hybrid interconnect approach for GALS NoC systems
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The era of many hundreds of millions of transistors within a single chip made multicores and wide functionality SoCs the current popular way of a chip's architecture and design. This architectural approach is now on a continuous race for improvements, as higher marks of performance are needed every day.

Freescale ups ante with quad-core Qorivva
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Freescale Semiconductor said its new quad-core Qorivva MPC5746M microcontroller boost performance up to 5-times plus includes specialized circuitry for safety, security and input/output including on-chip Ethernet.

Freescale's Q1 points to upswing, says CEO
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Freescale Semiconductor reported first quarter sales that were down on both a sequential and annual basis, but said it expects growth in the second quarter.

Freescale CEO Beyer to retire
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Freescale Semiconductor Chairman and CEO Rich Beyer plans to step down after the conclusion of a search for a new CEO, Freescale said.

Inward looking Renesas needs to spin outward
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Whatever happened to the proposed merger of Japan’s chip vendors reported earlier this year? If you’ve been thinking that this big deal was idle, media-led speculation, I beg to differ. This baby’s still in the womb.

Sensor architecture allows real-time auto emissions monitoring, Pt. 2
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As opposed to current periodic emission-control system testing—sensors, MCUs, and memory come together in an updated approach to real-time exhaust monitoring for improved pollution control. This part--sensing emissions and future challenges.

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