Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.
A common attribute of our success in each of these target industries is our ability to offer families of embedded processors. In their simplest forms, embedded processors provide the basic intelligence for electronic devices and can be programmed to address specific applications or functions. Examples of our embedded processors include microcontrollers, digital signal processors and communications processors.
In addition to our embedded processors, we offer our customers a broad portfolio of complementary devices that provide connectivity between products, across networks and to real-world signals, such as sound, vibration and pressure. Our complementary products include sensors, radio frequency semiconductors, power management and other analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Through our embedded processors and complementary products we are able to offer customers complex combinations of semiconductors and software, which we refer to as "platform-level products."
Since we began our operations in 1953 as the semiconductor products sector of Motorola, Inc., we have been an innovator and pioneer in the global semiconductor industry. We are responsible for a number of significant innovations that have had a meaningful impact on the industry. For example, we have developed key product categories, such as communications processors, microcontrollers, solid state acceleration sensors and cellular semiconductors and modules.
We have also been a leader in the development of process technology, pioneering the use of 200 millimeter silicon wafers, copper interconnect, silicon-on-insulator and silicon germanium carbon to create higher-performance, lower-cost products for our customers. In addition, we have been a pioneer in advanced device packaging and invented the ball-grid array packaging technology which is utilized extensively throughout the industry. We continue our commitment to innovation by dedicating significant resources to research and development in the areas of product design, platform-level design and process technology.
Our global customer base is comprised of over 10,000 end customers, including over 100 leading original equipment manufacturers that we serve through our direct sales force, as well as several thousand other end customers that we reach through a network of distributors. Approximately 22,000 full-time employees in over 30 countries service and support these customers.
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