Freescale Expands Presence in Romania; Invests in State-of-the-Art Software Development Center
June 29 2006 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
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
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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
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