ENERGY | WIRELESS | NANOTECH | MEMS | OPTICS | QUANTUM | 3D | CHIPS | ALGORITHMS

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Freescale CEO: 'Connected intelligence' beating recession


Freescale Semiconductor Inc. revealed its vision of the future of semiconductor technology at the Freescale Technology Forum Tuesday (June 22), where CEO Richard Beyer predicted that the recession will continue to fade by virtue of the commercial success of what he called "connected intelligence."



According to Beyer, new capabilities in device-to-device and device-to-infrastructure connectivity are offering new types of services and entertainment that add up to connected intelligence, which he claimed will continue to help pull the world out of the current recession. Freescale's Power QuIC processors are already deployed in "virtually every wireless basestation today," Beyer said, enabling a wider variety of Internet and cloud based services which Beyer said is the future of mobile wireless computing. But the wireless user devices themselves are the main driver of recession mitigation.
Full Text: http://bit.ly/NextGenLog-cxYw