Now Freescale joins HCA and Dollar General as a publicly traded company.
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In the case of Freescale it was in 2006 by a group of firms led by Blackstone.
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Intel's ability to throw its weight around won it the high-profile Apple account, displacing IBM and Freescale.
Since then, however, Freescale has become a case study in how quickly fortunes can change in the volatile semiconductor industry.
Strauss also sees a number of other factors at work: the automotive market--a big one for Freescale--went south.
Using Freescale's direct sequence flava of UWB, the 720p HD video ran flawlessly off the UWB attached disk.
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But in the offices adjoining the plant, a company called Freescale employs 180 people designing hi-tech automotive systems.
The leaders will likely be the current incumbents, like Analog Devices and Freescale.
With the Intel deal, Marvell is going after the more formidable cell phone franchises of Qualcomm, Freescale Semiconductor and TI.
Freescale Semiconductor shares are trading sharply higher after the company this morning named Greg Lowe as CEO effective immediately.
Freescale makes embedded chips that go into a range of applications such as automotive electronics, wireless transmission devices and consumer appliances.
Freescale was one of the many companies that was acquired during the private equity boom times of 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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Most privately held companies suffer the agonies of such market swings in private--but Freescale will have to do it in public.
Mayer didn't clinch a deal with a second big customer, leaving Freescale acutely vulnerable to the ups and downs of Motorola.
After Zander arrived, Motorola's semiconductor division named Freescale (nyse: FSL - news - people ) was spun-off to shareholders.
After Zander arrived, Motorola's semiconductor division named Freescale was spun-off to shareholders.
Like Silicon Valley and Boston, Austin is already a technology hub for the computer industry, and is home to Dell and Freescale.
By February, however, Freescale Chief Executive Michel Mayer said he would quit.
And as time goes on, other ARM customers like Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell, Freescale and AMD, could easily pass Intel as well.
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To prevent teams from manipulating the system, developed by Freescale Semiconductor and McLaren Electronic Systems, NASCAR will restrict operation with a special code.
In addition, TSS 3.0 works with Freescale's touch-sensing input (TSI) module, which is embedded into several hardware platforms, to provide better touch detection.
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Talk with Rich Beyer, the chief executive of chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor, about the consumer electronics industry, and one thing stands out: he mentions smartbooks.
But while Freescale's shares may have stopped trading last year, investors can still buy its bonds--which means that the company is still disclosing quarterly results.
The Clarion Malaysia IVI device is based on the Freescale i.
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For example, when coupled with Freescale's new Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs), the standby power for the newest Atom chip is 98% lower than the original.
The display itself is built by LG Display and is accompanied by a Freescale Cortex A8 CPU, 2GB of onboard storage, and an SDHC card-reading slot.
In addition to ARM and IBM, four of the world's leading application processor companies, Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, will align open source engineering efforts within Linaro.
As long as Motorola's handset businesses flourished, Freescale cashed in.
Those companies each ship hundreds of millions of units per year, but they have loyal suppliers like Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm that were not easy to displace.
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