Austin-based company Freescale Semiconductor released a statement on their website confirming the horror news that 20 passengers on a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, that vanished one hours after takeoff, were employees of the company.
“At present, we are solely focused on our employees and their families,” said Gregg Lowe, president and CEO, Freescale. “Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by this tragic event.”
Freescale is an American company that produces and designs embedded hardware. The company was previously known as Motorola. Twelve of the missing are from Malaysia and eight are from China.
The company mission statement as posted on their website:
For more than 50 years, Freescale has played a significant role in the evolution of embedded technologies with our break-through thinking, engineering expertise, dedication to quality and sustained market leadership. We have been at the forefront of embedded processing innovation through the decades, and continue to build on our strong foundation of advanced IP and system-on-chip know-how to lead the way with multicore, embedded software solutions, and full system designs that leverage our sensing, analog and RF technologies. Invention never stops.
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I am still concerned about the fact that a cell phone can be traced just about any where and at any time... YET, the variety of passengers with cell phones cannot be traced for some unknown reason?