Introduction: Freescale Semiconductor is a leading global semiconductor company headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA. Focused on embedded processing solutions. Freescale targets the automotive, networking, industrial, and consumer electronics markets, providing technologies including microprocessors, microcontrollers, sensors, analog integrated circuits, and connections. Some of Freescale's main applications and end markets include automotive safety, hybrid and fully electric vehicles, next-generation wireless infrastructure, intelligent energy management, portable medical devices, consumer electronics, and smart mobile devices. We have multiple design, research and development, manufacturing, and sales institutions worldwide. In February 2015, Freescale reached a merger agreement with NXP and renamed it NXP Semiconductors. The total market value after the merger is $40 billion, and the acquisition will be fully completed in the second half of 2015.
