AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. 31, 2005 – Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL, 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™ processor family based on PowerPC® 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 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 2.5 G and 3 G wireless basestations, enterprise and SOHO 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 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 routers, residential gateways, home media servers, IPTV set-top boxes, and network storage.
Iomega Corporation, for example, recently announced that its new Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) 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) 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™ development products for Freescale processors based on PowerPC cores.
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL, 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 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, manufacturingor sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500®, is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, with 2004 sales of US $5.7 billion.