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

AUSTIN, Texas--Sept. 28, 2005--Freescale Semiconductor has appointed Sam Coursen vice president and chief information officer. Formerly CIO of NCR Corporation, Coursen will oversee Freescale's strategic, operational, and financial information technology (IT) infrastructure.

During his seven years as CIO at NCR, Coursen presided over a significant re-engineering of IT at the company. He led the IT governance process to drive strategic and tactical alignment between IT and business initiatives within the company. Coursen also helped NCR achieve world-class IT cost efficiency via process standardization, consolidation, centralization, and outsourcing.

"Sam has a proven track record of success at getting greater value out of IT investment," said Jan Harris, Freescale's senior vice president, business operations. "He has the right background to drive alignment between Freescale's IT and business strategies and help streamline our global operations."

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

About Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 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 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. 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 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (USD). www.freescale.com

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