Freescale's Communications Processor Shipments Top 200 Million; No. 1 Supplier of Embedded Processors Continues to Reach New Milestones in Communications Processing.AUSTIN, Texas -- Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focuses their integrated circuit products on the automotive, embedded and communications markets. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FSL FSL - Formal Semantics Language. A language for compiler writing. ["A Formal Semantics for Computer Languages and its Application in a Compiler-Compiler", J.A. Feldman, CACM 9(1) (Jan 1966)]. [Sammet 1969, p. 641]. ) (NYSE:FSL.B), the leading supplier of embedded processors, has reached another milestone in its long history of providing processing intelligence for the world's networks. Freescale has shipped more than 200 million integrated communications processors, a semiconductor device category the company pioneered 16 years ago. In June during the annual Freescale Technology Forum, Freescale marked the 10-year anniversary of the PowerQUICC(TM) processor family based on PowerPC(R) cores, the embedded industry's most widely used communications processor architecture. Earlier this year, a Gartner Dataquest report named Freescale the world's No. 1 supplier of embedded processors in 2004, surpassing Intel with 28.2 percent market share. "The ongoing market success of Freescale's PowerQUICC architecture has helped propel our communications processor shipments past the 200 million mark," said Lynelle McKay, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Digital Systems Division. "The PowerQUICC family is the most popular communications Popular Communications is a magazine with content relating to the radio hobby, including scanners, shortwave radio, CB, and amateur radio. The magazine includes articles, schedules of shortwave stations, and logs of pirate radio communications sent in by readers. processor architecture in the history of embedded processing. And the innovations never stop. We continue to invest heavily in our flagship PowerQUICC business, and our customers can expect to see architectural advancements for many years to come." Engineered for scalability, versatility and compatibility across many development platforms, Freescale's PowerQUICC processor family is the solution of choice for more than 5,000 communications and networking system designs. A mainstay in infrastructure applications, PowerQUICC processors provide the communications intelligence for a large proportion of 2.5G and 3G wireless basestations, enterprise and SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. routers, remote access servers, DSLAMs, central office switching equipment, voice over IP (VoIP) systems and media gateways. While PowerQUICC architecture remains a de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for networking and communications infrastructure, it is also an increasingly popular processing platform in the home networking and consumer electronics market. PowerQUICC processors are used in such applications as voice-enabled VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. routers, residential gateways, home media servers, IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. set-top boxes and network storage. Iomega Corporation, for example, recently announced that its new UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) compliant StorCenter Network Hard Drive contains a PowerQUICC II processor. Last week, Freescale also announced its collaboration with Jungo to deliver platform solutions for residential and business gateway products based on security-enabled PowerQUICC II processors and Jungo's OpenRG and OpenSMB software. Beyond communications infrastructure and home networking, PowerQUICC processing intelligence has spread to many other rapidly growing application segments, such as printing and imaging, blade servers, defense and aerospace systems, enterprise and small-medium business (SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. ) storage and industrial control. Freescale's PowerQUICC architecture is backed by a comprehensive ecosystem of development tools from leading third-party vendors belonging to Freescale's Design Alliance Program. In addition to this extensive third-party support, Freescale offers a wide range of development solutions for PowerQUICC processors, such as cost-effective QUICCstart evaluation systems, application development system (ADS) boards and the CodeWarrior(TM) development products for Freescale processors based on PowerPC cores. About Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE: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 publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. 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(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies, with 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ). www.freescale.com Freescale(TM) and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. The "PowerPC" name is a trademark of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp. and used under license. (C) Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 2005. |
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