MexEEdev Promotes Development of Mexico High Tech Industry; Freescale Looks to Developer Conference for Next Wave of Technical Talent

"Mexico is shedding its international image as a source of solelylow-cost manufacturing. What we're seeing is very exciting," saidFrancisco Ruiz, co-founder and general director of the conference."The capability to design embedded chips, develop the hardware andsoftware for the applications, and then actually manufactureprototypes or finished product at one of the local EMS facilities forglobal or domestic customers is very compelling."

The term near-sourcing has been coined to describe this tightdevelopment cycle that is seen as a critical component in acceleratingdesigns into the converging consumer and wireless networking markets.

This newfound reputation as a global resource of engineeringservices compelled regional leaders to create opportunities to fosterdevelopment of Mexico's tech industry. MexEEdev was created to providea forum for technologists, industry leaders and academicians toaddress the demand for electronics design services in Mexico. Theforum will provide workshops and seminar sessions that are tailored tomeet the needs of the electronic engineer and software developer inkey technologies and markets that are forming the nucleus of regionaldesign.

"The need for skilled engineers who can keep pace with theadvances in technology is critical for succeeding in today'smarketplace," said German Hernandez, Freescale country manager. "InMexico, we have found a globally competitive talent pool at all stepsof the development cycle, which will help keep Freescale at theforefront of IC design."

MexEEdev will take place Oct. 12 - 14 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Tolearn more, visit http://www.mexeedev.com.

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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 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).

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