Freescale Semiconductor

The Texan semiconductor manufacturer Freescale Semiconductor originated from the spin-off of the semiconductor region by Motorola in July 2004. Motorola announced the spin-off announced on 6 October 2003. On April 4, 2004 Freescale participated as a 100% subsidiary of Motorola on business operations, on 16 June 2004 Freescale went public. Freescale was taken with the approval of the shareholders on December 1, 2006 by a consortium of investors led by the Blackstone Group with participation of the Carlyle Group, Permira and Texas Pacific Group. On 11 February 2011 Freescale went back to the stock market.

The semiconductor manufacturing began at Motorola already in 1953., The Semiconductor Components Group (SCG ) division with their devices and standard products usually discrete was spun off from Motorola as ON Semiconductor 1999. The more complex circuits such as processors later went to Freescale. In this area today are employed by Freescale approximately 17,000 employees in over 20 countries. In Germany, Freescale has been working as Freescale Semiconductor Germany GmbH.

Products include CPUs such as the PowerPC, and ARM-based processors, associated utilities and Development Systems ( CHRP machines like the ODW on Pegasos base ) and many other ICs for the embedded systems market and DSPs. Known microcontroller series are I.MX in the ARM architecture, PowerQUICC and QorIQ also in the PowerPC architecture.

In fiscal 2013, Freescale had a turnover of $ 4.19 billion with a loss of 208 million dollars.

On board the missing flight 370 on March 8, 2014 Malaysia Airlines to 20 company employees were Freescale Semiconductor.