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Freescale Awards Microcross Partner of the Year

ORLANDO, FL  --  July 25, 2005 -- Freescale awarded Microcross their prestigious Parner of the Year Award at the 2006 Freescale Technology Forum's Wireless Developer Network Party held at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Course in Grande Lakes, Florida.  Microcross is vendor of choice that was selected for the i.MXL and i.MX21 LiteKit tools solution in 2005. 

About Microcross

Microcross is the leading international distributor of open-source embedded development tools based on GNU technology.  Microcross is making embedded systems easier to program by providing full-featured, open-source development tools that are validated and documented, so customers can affordably accelerate their development. Microcross enables customers to confidently develop and run software in embedded systems faster, more reliably and at a lower cost. Microcross' professional embedded tools solution tightly integrates a rich set of leading real-time operating systems and its own brand of embedded Linux to meet the needs of customers producing embedded devices and smart technology. For more information, please browse www.microcross.com.

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About Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD). www.freescale.com.