Neowin News Feed for: Freescale

MRAM production gains momentum as Japanese and US companies team up

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:20:38 +0000

A group of over 20 chip makers have joined forces to develop MRAM, the next breakthrough in memory chips which is set to deliver up to 10 times more speed compared to the current DRAM chips. Read more...

Freescale's next-gen chip likely to lower e-Reader costs

Christine McKee — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:08:27 +0000

Freescale Semiconductor's next-generation i.MX508 applications processor should lower e-Reader costs, according to the company's news release. Freescale chips are already used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, and according to Reuters, the company boasts... Read more...

AMD's Richard Defects to Freescale

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:52:37 +0000

Henri Richard, the former chief marketing and sales officer with Advanced Micro Devices, is joining Freescale Semiconductor to lead the chip maker's sales and marketing divisions. Richard, who will hold the title of senior vice... Read more...

Freescale Accepts Big Buyout Bid

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:43:43 +0000

Freescale Semiconductor - the former chip manufacturing arm of Motorola - has agreed to be acquired by a group of investment firms for $17.6 billion. A consortium of four private equity firms plans to buy... Read more...

Freescale reveals 90nm G4 processor

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:34:23 +0000

Freescale will reveal the 90nm processor which may drive the next generation of Mac notebooks at a conference today. Freescale is the name for what was formerly Motorola's processor manufacturing wing, which has now been... Read more...

Freescale to detail dual-core PowerPC G4

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:10:25 +0000

As we all know Apple dropped support for Motorola's desktop processors, and chose to use IBM's processors for its next generation desktop PCs. This action was viewed by some analyst as a final blow... Read more...