Freescale Semiconductor Extends Leadership Position in Processors

Freescale Semiconductor has extended its position as the market leader in wired and wireless communications processors according to rankings recently issued by analyst group Gartner. The firm ranks Freescale number one with 53 percent of the market in 2010 and separates Freescale from its closest competitor by more than 40 percent.

Freescale continues to maintain its strength in communications processors, growing market share year over year from 2009 to 2010. The industry's rapid adoption of Freescale's multicore QorIQ™ products played a key role in the leadership expansion.

"Adoption of multicore QorIQ processors among clients targeting wired and wireless communications processors is strong and getting stronger," said Brett Butler, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Networking Processor Division. "There is tremendous possibility ahead for furthermore innovation in communications processors, and Freescale is leading the way with its QorIQ communications platforms."

Global growth of IP traffic is driving tremendous demand for rich digital content and pushing for advances in wired and wireless networking equipment. According to Gartner, wireless data volumes are doubling every year on a worldwide basis.

The communications processor market in 1989

Freescale established the communications processor market in 1989 by delivering the industry's first multi-protocol microprocessor, and since at that time has shipped more than 300 million communications processor units. The versatile devices are used in routers, switches, digital line cards, wireless LAN access/aggregation points, unified threat management appliances, voice over IP equipment, customer premises equipment, SOHO and enterprise routers, as then as printer, high-end imaging and storage applications.

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, innovation and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com

Copyright © 2011 Business Wire. All rights reserved. All the news releases provided by Business Wire are copyrighted. Any forms of copying other than an individual user's personal reference without express written permission is prohibited. Furthermore distribution of these materials by posting, archiving in a public web site or database, or redistribution in a computer network is strictly forbidden.

Fundamental company data provided by Capital IQ. Historical chart data and daily updates provided by Commodity Systems, Inc.. International historical chart data, daily updates, fundAnalyst estimates data provided by Thomson Financial Network. All data povided by Thomson Financial Network is based solely upon technology information provided by third party analysts. Yahoo! has not reviewed, and by no means whatsoever endorses the validity of such data. Yahoo! and ThomsonFN shall not be liable for any actions taken in reliance thereon.