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Freescale Semiconductor has introduced two advanced 3-axis digital accelerometers to help mobile device developers meet the demand for sleeker, more sophisticated portable electronics products.

6Wind has ported its Linux-based multi-core networking stack to a new PowerPC-based networking system-on-chip (SoC) from Freescale Semiconductor.

The 6WindGate stack now supports Freescale's upcoming QorIQ P4080, having been ported to the platform using Virtutech's Simics simulation environment, the company says.

October 06, 2008 - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago Share Comments Freescale Semiconductor announced it is looking to sell its cellular handset chip division.

Freescale Semiconductor announced it is looking to sell its cellular handset chip division. The products it plans to jettison comprise baseband processors, RF transceivers, and power management/audio products for handsets, says the semiconductor firm, and are likely to include its Linux-ready MXC line of "cellphone-on-module" chips.

The Multicore Association has released a standardized application programming interface (API) for inter-core communications on "closely distributed" multi-core systems.

The new Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) attracted plaudits from Freescale Semiconductor, which posted a publicly available source code example, and from VirtuaLogix, which says its VLX virtualization products will support it.

MontaVista Software announced additional details about its Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference. Scheduled for Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco, Vision 2008 will offer more than 40 sessions, with presentations from embedded Linux experts including MontaVista CTO James Ready and Freescale Semiconductor CTO Lisa Su

A free webinar aims to show embedded Linux developers how to migrate existing code to a multi-core environment.

Hosted by MontaVista Software, Freescale Semiconductor, and TechOnline, the Sept 11 webinar will use the multi-core Freescale QorIQ P4080 and MPC8641D processors as examples.

Freescale Semiconductor is now a member of the LiMo Foundation, an organization dedicated to developing a Linux platform for mobile devices.

Freescale Semiconductor has developed a cost-effective, highly integrated solution designed to help lower costs for carriers and spur adoption of gigabit passive optical network equipment in markets worldwide.

LiMo membership another example of Freescale's determination to offer Open OS solutions to handset OEMs AUSTIN, USA: Freescale Semiconductor announced its membership in the LiMo Foundation , a global industry ...