Freescale - ST Alliance Puts Squeeze On Infineon In $16 Billion Automotive Semiconductor Market.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 February 2006-Strategy Analytics, Inc.: Freescale - ST Alliance Puts Squeeze On Infineon In $16 Billion Automotive Semiconductor Market(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15022006 Partnership To Expand PowerPC Market Position Boston, MA - Freescale and ST Microelectronics together last week announced the establishment of an IP cross-licensing agreement intended to reinforce their respective positions as leading semiconductor suppliers to the automotive electronics industry.

Freescale's 32-bit PowerPC microcontroller core and ST's high voltage PowerMOS and IGBT technology IP will be shared, their 90-nm embedded Flash process technologies aligned, and a microcontroller joint design team created. In the current Strategy Analytics Vendor...