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 Semiconductor has licensed Imagination Technologies' POWERVR MBX Lite graphics core from ARM for its i.MX31, targetting feature-rich smartphones, digital video recorders, digital cameras, mobile gaming consoles, mobile multimedia players and other mobile wireless applications.

Freescale Semiconductor has also utilized Imagination’s POWERVR® MBX graphics core technology in an advanced multi-core processor for telematics, industrial control and consumer applications. Marking the expansion of the relationship beyond the mobile market and into automotive semiconductors, MPC5121e integrates POWERVR MBX and POWERVR VGP Lite 2D/3D acceleration with Freescale's Display Integration Unit (DIU) to help reduce overall system cost while increasing graphics capabilities significantly compared to previous generations of competitive parts. The graphics core is integrated with Freescale’s e300 core, built on Power Architecture™ technology.

Announced Devices

  i.MX31

  MPC5121e