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New Facilities and Growing Engineering Team Underscore Freescale's
Commitment to the Embedded Market
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has expanded its
operations in Bucharest, Romania, with new facilities and a growing
staff focused on developing next-generation wireline and wireless
communication technologies. The company marked the opening of its new
software development center today during an inaugural ceremony
attended by Freescale executives, customers and Romanian government
officials.
Freescale's research and development priorities at the software
development center include infrastructure applications for
voice/modem/fax over IP (VoIP/MoIP/FoIP), network equipment and
infrastructure, software for 3G cellular platforms, ZigBee(TM) stack
development and integrated development tools (debuggers, compilers and
performance analysis tools) for Freescale processors.
Freescale Semiconductor Romania is one of the company's most
strategically important operations in the Europe, Middle East and
Africa (EMEA) region. The software development center in Romania is
generating patentable concepts and solutions for software technologies
that will help enable the communications and information technology
markets. The company has doubled its headcount in Romania over the
past 12 months to more than 200 software engineers and support staff.
This growth in personnel is expected to continue at a similar pace in
2006 and beyond. This year also marks the sixth anniversary of
Freescale's growing presence and investment in Romania.
"Romania offers a talented pool of software and systems engineers,
and Freescale is fortunate to be able to tap into that world-class
talent and expand our presence in the Romania market," said David
Perkins, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale's
Networking and Computing Systems Group. "Freescale's software
developer team in Romania is playing a critical role in the company's
strategic focus on mobile telephony, communications processing and
embedded software solutions. I am very pleased to have Adrian
Purcarea, director and country manager of Freescale Semiconductor
Romania, on board to lead the team."
Purcarea is a graduate of the Cybernetics faculty from the Academy
of Economic Studies Bucharest. He holds a post-graduate degree in
business administration, as well as a master's in business
administration from the Romanian-Canadian MBA program. Prior to
joining Freescale, Purcarea was the deputy general manager of the
largest Romanian company in the information technologies sector.
"The expansion of Freescale's software development center in
Bucharest is a major milestone in Romania's evolution as a hub of
high-technology research and development," said Purcarea. "We have
assembled a world-class team of software engineers driving innovation
and generating patents around advanced mobile and embedded platforms.
Their software breakthroughs are enabling next-generation consumer
electronics products and communications infrastructure solutions that
touch countless lives around the world."
About Freescale's Presence in the EMEA Region
Freescale has approximately 4,600 employees in 20 countries across
the EMEA region. The company's primary manufacturing facilities in
EMEA are located in East Kilbride, Scotland and Toulouse, France. In
addition to the software development center in Romania, Freescale
maintains significant hardware design, software development and IP
creation centers elsewhere in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland,
Israel and Russia. Freescale also has an advanced technology
partnership with Phillips and STMicroelectronics known as the Crolles2
Alliance near Grenoble, France.
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 in July 2004. 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 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).
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