Freescale Semiconductor to scale Ultra-Wideband solutions to 1 gigabyte data transfer rate

Aggressive roadmap reveals breadth/depth of Direct Sequence-Ultra-Wideband solutions for consumer electronic (CE) applications

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – June 7, 2004 – Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. and leading provider of Ultra-Wideband ( UWB ) solutions, has detailed its current and next-generation UWB product family roadmap at the Wireless Connectivity (WiCon) World Expo in Amsterdam. Over the next year*, Freescale plans to deliver three advanced UWB product families, including the industry’s first 1 Gbps UWB solution, to address the wide variety of performance and functionality required by numerous UWB applications.