BROWSING: Freescale Semiconductor

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s second-quarter 2004 earnings reflected strong year-over-year growth with the exception of a hefty net loss due to the spin-off of its semiconductor business.The company reported sales of $8.7 billion for the second quarter of 2004, up 41 percent from $6.2 billion...

AUSTIN, TEXAS-Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and parent company Motorola Inc. Friday announced the initial public offering of 121,621,622 shares of Freescale Semiconductor Class A common stock at a price of $13 per share, for a total offering of $1.58 billion. Freescale Semiconductor's Class A common...

The standards deadlock over ultra-wideband technology between the Multiband OFDM Alliance and the Direct Sequence UWB Forum continued at the IEEE conference this week. This time, however, it had an unexpected twist.In the vote tally often won by MBOA, the other side won what...

While waiting to pry loose of Motorola Inc. later this year, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. will be walking the path of other companies like Agere Systems Inc. and Infineon Technologies Inc., which were previously parts of bigger behemoths.These three companies want to exercise the same...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. has put its semiconductor business on track to become a separate, publicly owned company by announcing its chairman and chief executive officer.Michel Mayer is the new helmsman at Freescale Semiconductor. He was most recently the general manager of IBM Microelectronics, which...

Freescale Semiconductor said it is collaborating with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's testing laboratories to determine the interference potential of the various Ultra-Wideband waveforms.The waveforms include the direct sequence and multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplex. Freescale, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of...

DALLAS-Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc., Freescale Semiconductor has made a series of chip announcements covering areas such as voice over Internet Protocol and system on a chip.The company said it has extended its PowerQUICC processor-based VOIP solutions known as the MSC11x...

With bigger net incomes and increasing orders, wireless vendors blossomed with more optimism and richer cash flows than a year ago, signaling what industry watchers see as better times ahead.However, stock-market gains remain modest.L.M. Ericsson edged out market expectations in its fiscal first-quarter results...

Motorola Inc. announced its first-quarter results to market enthusiasm, generating its best stock momentum in three years.Its shares rose $3.11 to $19.33, representing a 20-percent leap.The vendor reported net earnings of $609 million, or 25 cents per share, in contrast with the same period...

If Motorola Inc.'s position as the No. 2 handset maker has remained tenuous during the past two years, the company just lost that same spot in another space in the semiconductor world-digital signal processors. DSPs process voice and video signals in the baseband of...