[6] On September 15, 2006, Freescale agreed to accept a buyout for the sum of $17.6 billion ($40 per share) by a consortium led by the Blackstone Group.

Share prices of $13 at the July 2004 IPO had risen to $39.35 in afterhours trading that Friday when the news, rumored that week, broke.

[13] A merger agreement with NXP Semiconductors was announced in March 2015, to form a US$40 (equivalent to $51.42 in 2023) billion company.

[20] Freescale's SMARTMOS analog portfolio provides power actuation and multiple switch detect interface family ICs and system basis chips for hybrid vehicles.

Freescale also has a portfolio of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) products based on StarCore Technology.

[25] Freescale lost a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Tessera Corporation and was forced to pay an undisclosed amount as part of the settlement.

[26] Clock driver software written by Freescale was responsible for the 2008 Zune leap year bug.