Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.

    After more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Freescale started a new life as a stand-alone company in July 2004. Today Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2006 sales of $6.4 billion (USD).

    Freescale have seven wholly-owned wafer fabs, two assembly and test sites and a 300-millimeter pilot line and R&D center in Crolles, France, jointly owned with STMicroelectronics and NXP.

    Freescale invests $1 billion annually in R&D and has 5,500 patent families.