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NUREMBERG, Germany (Embedded World Conference) - Feb. 13, 2007 - Freescale Semiconductor's communications processor families have defined and delivered innovation for more than fifteen years. Continuing this tradition is the MPC8544E, the newest member of the PowerQUICC™III family.

The MPC8544E is designed to address growing demand for advanced interconnect technologies and low power consumption in high performance applications. It incorporates SGMII interfaces and three multi-lane PCI Express® ports. Additionally, the MPC8544E is one of the industry's lowest power-consumption system-on-chips (SoCs) to deliver gigabit performance. Consuming only 3.75 W typical core power at gigahertz operation, the MPC8544E greatly reduces the challenges of thermal management in fanless embedded applications.

"Today's performance-driven embedded applications are constricted by the competing requirements of extensive computation, high data throughput and ever-decreasing power budgets," said Jeff Timbs, marketing director for Freescale's Digital Systems Division. "The MPC8544E eases this dilemma and enables the creation of highly advanced equipment for a broad spectrum of applications."

The MPC8544E is a highly flexible processor configurable for a wide range of applications that demand high general-purpose processing performance. It is well suited for network routers, industrial controllers, imaging systems, enterprise wireless access points and video surveillance/conferencing equipment.

Key features
The MPC8544E processor offers a flexible SoC platform with an e500v2 core based on Power Architecture technology and a large 256KB L2 Cache. The device provides a wide range of high speed connectivity including two integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet controllers with SGMII interfaces and three PCI Express ports. Hardware acceleration engines onboard the MPC8544E include Double Precision, Floating Point, Signal Processing Engine, TCP Offload and Freescale's industry leading Security Acceleration Engine. It operates in extended industrial temperature ranges from -40 to 105 degrees Celsius.

Proven performance
The MPC8544 is a derivative of the MPC8548, which performed extremely well in recently released benchmark tests relevant to a number of applications including networking, consumer and telecommunications. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium® (EEMBC) has issued certified benchmark scores based on a series of tests conducted on the processor to help designers predict device core performance in a range of real-world applications. Detailed score reports are freely available on the EEMBC Web site at www.eembc.org.

Pricing and availability
The MPC8544 without encryption and the MPC8544E with encryption are manufactured on Freescale's 90-nm process technology and offered in a 783-pin PBGA package. Early samples of the MPC8544 and MPC8544E are planned to be available Q2 2007, and production availability is expected to begin in Q4 2007. Suggested resale pricing for the 1GHz MPC8544E processor starts at $90.71 (USD) in 10K unit quantities.

Freescale is previewing the MPC8544 this week at the Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg, Germany. The MPC8544 demonstration platform is on display at the event in Hall 12, Booth # 448.

About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2006 sales of $6.4 billion (USD). www.freescale.com

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