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New Facilities and Growing Engineering Team Underscore Freescale's Commitment to the Embedded Market Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has expanded its operations in Bucharest, Romania, with new facilities and a growing staff focused on developing next-generation wireline and wireless communication technologies. The company marked the opening of its new software development center today during an inaugural ceremony attended by Freescale executives, customers and Romanian government officials. Freescale's research and development priorities at the software development center include infrastructure applications for voice/modem/fax over IP (VoIP/MoIP/FoIP), network equipment and infrastructure, software for 3G cellular platforms, ZigBee(TM) stack development and integrated development tools (debuggers, compilers and performance analysis tools) for Freescale processors. Freescale Semiconductor Romania is one of the company's most strategically important operations in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The software development center in Romania is generating patentable concepts and solutions for software technologies that will help enable the communications and information technology markets. The company has doubled its headcount in Romania over the past 12 months to more than 200 software engineers and support staff. This growth in personnel is expected to continue at a similar pace in 2006 and beyond. This year also marks the sixth anniversary of Freescale's growing presence and investment in Romania. "Romania offers a talented pool of software and systems engineers, and Freescale is fortunate to be able to tap into that world-class talent and expand our presence in the Romania market," said David Perkins, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale's Networking and Computing Systems Group. "Freescale's software developer team in Romania is playing a critical role in the company's strategic focus on mobile telephony, communications processing and embedded software solutions. I am very pleased to have Adrian Purcarea, director and country manager of Freescale Semiconductor Romania, on board to lead the team." Purcarea is a graduate of the Cybernetics faculty from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest. He holds a post-graduate degree in business administration, as well as a master's in business administration from the Romanian-Canadian MBA program. Prior to joining Freescale, Purcarea was the deputy general manager of the largest Romanian company in the information technologies sector. "The expansion of Freescale's software development center in Bucharest is a major milestone in Romania's evolution as a hub of high-technology research and development," said Purcarea. "We have assembled a world-class team of software engineers driving innovation and generating patents around advanced mobile and embedded platforms. Their software breakthroughs are enabling next-generation consumer electronics products and communications infrastructure solutions that touch countless lives around the world." About Freescale's Presence in the EMEA Region Freescale has approximately 4,600 employees in 20 countries across the EMEA region. The company's primary manufacturing facilities in EMEA are located in East Kilbride, Scotland and Toulouse, France. In addition to the software development center in Romania, Freescale maintains significant hardware design, software development and IP creation centers elsewhere in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel and Russia. Freescale also has an advanced technology partnership with Phillips and STMicroelectronics known as the Crolles2 Alliance near Grenoble, France. About Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD). www.freescale.com Freescale Technology Forum The Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) is fast becoming the embedded semiconductor industry's premier developer conference. A global program, FTF events feature visionary keynote speakers, in-depth technical training and interactive demonstrations from Freescale and leading hardware, software and tools providers. 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