NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chip maker NXP Semiconductors NV has agreed to buy smaller peer Freescale Semiconductor Ltd and merge operations in a deal valuing the combined company at over $40 billion (26 ...

NUREMBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) today announced its new S12 MagniV 16-bit S12ZVM family of mixed-signal microcontrollers (MCUs). The S12ZVM is the most highly ...

Formula One is being used as a testing ground for future electronic security developments in the automotive industry. By Brad Spurgeon The offer came as Microsemi sought to derail a competing proposal ...

Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) eases customers' development of ZigBee applications with the announcement of its BeeKit wireless connectivity tool kit. BeeKit provides an easy-to-use ...

Freescale Semiconductor hopes to move its 7400 series PowerPC processors beyond the telecommunications and industrial design markets with the fifth generation of the chip, announced Monday. Freescale ...

Freescale Semiconductor Chairman and CEO Michel Mayer will leave his posts as soon as a replacement is found, the company said Friday. “The time is right for me and my family to take some time off ...

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. is commercially offering a new type of memory chip, in hopes of spurring the development of applications and devices that can capitalize on the inherent advantages of the ...

Much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers. Yesterday, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. revealed details of a dual-core ...

Freescale Semiconductor is sampling a 16-bit microcontroller designed especially for use in automotive instrumentation clusters. The MC9S12XHZ512 features a 40 MHz enhanced 16-bit HCS12 CPU core; an ...

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced an S12XF series of 16-bit microcontrollers for use in embedded nodes on FlexRay networks for body, chassis and safety applications. Based on a 50 MHz CISC core, ...

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. this week announced that it’s joining forces with several venture capital firms to form a new MRAM-focused company. The Austin-based chip manufacturer will move its own ...