Freescale Technology Powers Innovation Date:   Sunday , September 05, 2010 The global chip maker Freescale Semiconductor, conducted its sixth Freescale Technology Forum (FTF), recently held in Bangalore, as a platform to showcase more than 70 hours of technical training sessions focusing on the fileds of automotive, consumer, industrial, networking, and enabling technologies, and over 50 interactive Technology Lab demonstrations. The conference was mainly focused on the topic ‘powering innovation’. The company displayed several reference designs such as intelligent hospital system, smartbook, a kindle-based device that allows children to read books, and a stringless guitar that works by a touch pad at its Forum. Freescale has developed a low-cost intelligent hospital kiosk that allows patients to quickly check their health parameters and seek a physician’s advice through the Internet. The company has shipped the kiosk from Mexico to Bangalore for a demo and pitch for response from its end-users. During the two-day conference, the chipmaker has made it clear that it would be targeting Indian market for its high end products in the verticals like automotive, networking, and industrial automation.