Freescale Strengthens Manufacturing Team; Semiconductor Manufacturing Veterans Hired as Part of Ongoing Drive Toward Operational Excellence

Chris Chi, formerly with UMC, joins as vice president of externalmanufacturing, and Gulzar Mohd Ali, formerly with Intel, joins as vicepresident of final manufacturing overseeing assembly and testoperations. Both will report to Alex Pepe, Freescale's senior vicepresident, manufacturing operations.

"Chris and Gulzar bring a wealth of outside experience to helpFreescale achieve best-in-class manufacturing operations," said Pepe."To achieve the next level of excellence, Freescale must attract anddevelop world-class talent. Chris and Gulzar will play a vital role inpushing for continued improvement in all areas of manufacturing --gross margin, service and quality."

Chris has held significant manufacturing leadership roles at bothUnited Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Chartered Semiconductor.Most recently he was president of UMC in Europe. Chris has started andoperated both 200-mm and 300-mm fabs, and he was president of UMCiLimited, a wafer fab joint venture between UMC, Infineon, and theSingapore Economic Development Board. A 24-year industry veteran,Chris holds six U.S. patents in semiconductor process and computerintegrated manufacturing.

Gulzar brings more than 25 years of extensive experience in finalmanufacturing. She has held numerous positions at Intel during hercareer. Her recent position was based in Phoenix, Arizona as vicepresident and co-general manager of Assembly Test with operations inMalaysia, China, Philippines and Costa Rica. Gulzar began her careerin Malaysia after receiving her degree from Panjab University inIndia. She has a wealth of international experience includingassignments in Malaysia, Japan, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

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Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a globalleader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors forthe automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after morethan 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based inAustin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturingor sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member ofthe S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companieswith 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (USD).

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