Freescale Discovery Lab celebrates a year of innovation

摘要

Freescale semiconductor has celebrated the first year of the Freescale Discovery Lab, an incubator where inventors of the next big thing pursue high risk, high reward ideas. Based in Austin, Texas at the company's headquarters in Oak Hill, the lab brings together Freescale's best minds from across the company and around the globe to test and prove unique ideas that offer significant improvements on existing technologies or techniques. Inventors at the Discovery Lab are working on a variety of technology from exploring alternative materials, creating cutting edge packaging technology to architecting new systems and software that will enable next generation products to fuel major market trends such as loT (Internet of Things), SDN (Software Defined Networks), and ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). Every employee is encouraged to submit ideas and when accepted, that employee is assigned to the lab in Austin to work full-time on its realisation. Since its opening, over 200 ideas have been submitted, and more than 20 employees are currently working on nine projects. The Freescale Discovery Lab has forged partnerships with numerous domestic and international universities, and a second lab will soon break ground in Toulouse, France.