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Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas with design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations in more than 75 locations in 19 countries. The company employs 17,000 people worldwide. Freescale designs and produces embedded hardware and software for the automotive, networking, industrial and consumer markets with a current emphasis on technology enablement of the Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking (SDN) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Freescale’s product portfolio includes microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors (MPUs), digital signal processors, digital signal controllers, sensors, RF power integrated circuits (ICs), power management ICs, and software development tools to support product design and development. Their current patent portfolio includes approximately 6,100 patent families. Freescale currently ranks 8th among semiconductor companies in the United States and is ranked 16th worldwide, as measured by total revenue. 17 billion Freescale semiconductor products are in use around the world today, enabling applications such as vehicle networking and information, vehicle radar and vision systems, networking security appliances, network routers and switches, hospital and in-home healthcare devices, smart energy, factory automation, eReaders and wearable devices. == History == Freescale was one of the first semiconductor companies in the world, having started as a division of Motorola in Phoenix, Arizona in 1948〔(Freescale Connected Intelligence ). Freescale.com. Retrieved on 2013-12-08.〕 and then becoming autonomous by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. In 1955, a Motorola transistor for car radios was the world’s first commercial high-power transistor. It was also Motorola’s first mass-produced semiconductor device. In the 1960s, one of the U.S. space program's goals was to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth. In 1968, NASA began manned Apollo flights that led to the first lunar landing in July 1969. Apollo 11 was particularly significant for hundreds of employees involved in designing, testing and producing its electronics. A division of Motorola, which became Freescale Semiconductor, supplied thousands of semiconductor devices, ground-based tracking and checkout equipment, and 12 on-board tracking and communications units. An "up-data link" in the Apollo's command module received signals from Earth to relay to other on-board systems. A transponder received and transmitted voice and television signals and scientific data.〔( Motorola on the Moon )〕 Also that year, Motorola’s technologies were used to introduce the first two-way mobile radio with a fully transistorized power supply and receiver for cars.〔"Motorola: 75 Years of Intelligent Thinking", 2003, page 31〕 Motorola has continued its growth in the networking and communications sector in later years, providing the tools behind the radio transponder that delivered the first words from the moon in 1969, and going on to develop the first prototype of the first analog mobile phone in 1973.〔(Motorola Timeline, 1969 )〕 The company’s first microprocessor (MC6800 8-bit) was introduced in 1974, and was used in automotive, computing and video game applications.〔"Motorola: 75 Years of Intelligent Thinking", 2003, page 42〕 Motorola’s next generation 32-bit microprocessor, the MC68000, led the wave of technologies that spurred the computing revolution in 1984, powering devices from companies such as Apple, Commodore, Atari, Sun, and Hewlett-Packard.〔"Motorola - A Journey Through Time & Technology” pages 75 – 79〕 In the 1990s, Motorola’s technology was the driving force behind intelligent power switches for anti-lock brake systems, one of the first microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensor for automotive airbags, and Motorola’s MPC5200 microprocessor deployed telematic systems for General Motors’ OnStar systems.〔(Press Release: Freescale Named a General Motors Supplier of the Year ), 2006〕 Since then, Freescale has continued to provide the technology behind consumer, medical, networking and automotive products from microprocessors for the world’s first tubing-free wireless insulin pump,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Insulin Pumps - Insulin Pump Therapy - OmniPod Insulin Management System )〕 to and automotive microcontrollers for efficient engine design. Freescale’s motion-sensing accelerometer powers the interactivity of the Guitar Hero video games. The number one provider of eReader processors worldwide is Freescale.〔(Press Release: Freescale Powers Into 2011 as the Market Share Leader in eReaders ), 2010〕 In 2011, the company launched the industry’s first multimode wireless base station processor family that scales from small to large cells – integrating DSP and communications processor technologies to realize a true "base station-on-chip".〔(Press Release: Freescale Introduces Industry’s First Multimode Wireless Base Station Processor Family That Scales From Small to Large Cells )〕 In addition, a recent ABI Research market study report states that Freescale owns 60% share of the radio frequency (RF) semiconductor device market. Also in 2011, Freescale announced the company's first magnetometer for location tracking in smart mobile devices.〔(Press Release: Freescale Introduces the First Magnetometer in its Xtrinsic Sensor Portfolio ), 2011〕 With the partnership of McLaren Electronic Systems, they helped the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series vehicles convert from carburetors to fuel injection starting in 2012.〔(''NASCAR sets fuel injection for '12 but keeping restrictor plates'' ) at USA Today〕〔(''NASCAR Moves to Fuel Injection, Bosch First Approved Supplier'' ) at Auto Service World〕〔(''Bosch to provide oxygen sensors for fuel injection'' ) at NASCAR.com〕 On March 8, 2014, Freescale announced that 20 of its employees were passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. That plane, carrying the Freescale employees, is currently missing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Freescale Semiconductor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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