Freescale’s wireless portion enterprise or “Whispering” China

April 7 Beijing has electricity, a near Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale Semiconductor Holidings, under the Freescale) on the “Financial” reporter said, after half a year after the search, from Chinese buyers will soon surface. It is reported that the purchase Freescale’s cell phone chip business for one domestic manufacturer of mobile phone, the purchase price of approximately 100 million U.S. dollars.

Since 2004 after spinning off from Motorola, Freescale’s largest customer has been the “old boss” Motorola. However, with the decline in Motorola’s mobile phone business, Freescale’s mobile chip business also plummeted.

Since 2008, Freescale has been looking for its mobile telephone portion enterprise buyers. In September last year, Freescale CEO Rich Beyer to the out-of-doors world the first time, broadcast that it would deal the company’s wireless telephone portion business.

Have since been described that Infineon, Germany (FSE: IFX) will likely conquer this part of the assets, but has not yet been converted into action. “Infineon is engaged with the sale of Qimonda’s own enterprise, is absolutely not the aim to conquer the” beside the above-mentioned issue Freescale.

January 29 this year, Freescale announced a fourth quarter 2008 performance, cell phone chip business is one of the most serious decline in some. This part on the income from one quarter to 344 million U.S. dollars dropped 64 million U.S. dollars.

The above-mentioned sources, Freescale’s mobile chip business for sale includes the most part of the core intellectual property rights.

Domestic telecommunications commerce veteran said that after years of development, the business was still guarded by household wireless telephone portion expertise and patents, the threshold at the wireless telephone portion Freescale patents of substantial worth, particularly in the LTE (Long Term Evolution, a long-term evolution of expertise, the most widespread pertains to the most present new lifetime of connection technology) and other new technologies.