Freescale Semiconductor
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2004 |
| resolution | December 7, 2015 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by NXP |
| Seat | Austin , United States |
| management | Gregg Lowe ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | ~ 17,000 |
| sales | $ 4.19 billion (2013) |
Freescale Semiconductor was a Texas semiconductor manufacturer that emerged in July 2004 from the spin-off of Motorola’s semiconductor division . Motorola announced the spin-off on October 6, 2003. On April 4, 2004, Freescale began operations as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola, and on June 16, 2004, Freescale went public. Freescale was acquired 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 the Texas Pacific Group for 17.6 billion dollars. It was the highest leveraged buyout of a technology company to date .
On February 11, 2011, Freescale went public again.
Semiconductor production began at Motorola as early as 1953. The Semiconductor Components Group (SCG) division with its mostly discrete components and standard products was spun off from Motorola in 1999 as ON Semiconductor . The more complex circuits such as processors later went to Freescale. At the end of the day, Freescale employed around 17,000 people in over 20 countries in this area. In Germany Freescale operated as Freescale Semiconductor Germany GmbH .
Products were, for example, CPUs such as the PowerPC and ARM -based processors, associated service programs and development systems (with CHRP computers such as the Pegasos- based ODW ) and numerous other ICs for the market of embedded systems and DSPs . Well-known microcontroller series were the I.MX in the ARM architecture, as well as PowerQUICC and QorIQ in the PowerPC architecture.
In fiscal 2013, Freescale had sales of $ 4.19 billion on a loss of $ 208 million.
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which went missing on March 8, 2014 , carried 20 company employees.
On March 2, 2015, Freescale announced the acquisition of the company by NXP . On December 7, 2015, the company was incorporated into NXP.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freescale at a Glance. Freescale, 2013, accessed March 10, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Freescale Semiconductor Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2013 Results. Freescale, January 28, 2014, accessed March 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Andrew Ross Sorkin, Laurie J. Flynn: Blackstone Alliance to Buy Chip Maker for $ 17.6 Billion. In: New York Times . September 16, 2006.
- ↑ Loss of employees on Malaysia flight a blow, US chipmaker says. Reuters, March 9, 2014, accessed March 15, 2014 .
- ↑ NXP and Freescale Announce $ 40 Billion Merger. freescale, March 2, 2015, accessed on March 3, 2015 .
- ↑ NXP completes merger with Freescale. (No longer available online.) Sol.de, December 7, 2015, archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; Retrieved December 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
