Freescale Names Sam Coursen Chief Information Officer; Company Attracts Industry Veteran with Global IT Expertise

During his seven years as CIO at NCR, Coursen presided over asignificant re-engineering of IT at the company. He led the ITgovernance process to drive strategic and tactical alignment betweenIT and business initiatives within the company. Coursen also helpedNCR achieve world-class IT cost efficiency via processstandardization, consolidation, centralization, and outsourcing.

"Sam has a proven track record of success at getting greater valueout of IT investment," said Jan Harris, Freescale's senior vicepresident, business operations. "He has the right background to drivealignment between Freescale's IT and business strategies and helpstreamline our global operations."

A 34-year industry veteran, Coursen also worked at AT&T and BellLaboratories. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electricalengineering from Auburn University.

About Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) is a globalleader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors forthe automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets.Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after morethan 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based inAustin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturingor sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member ofthe S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companieswith 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (USD). www.freescale.com

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