Freescale extends Kinetis microcontroller security leadership to address fast-evolving mobile point of sale market

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) announces that its Kinetis K8x microcontroller family, the industry’s most secure MCUs based on ARM® Cortex®-M technology, is now shipping worldwide in volume quantities. The company has also introduced the pin-compatible Kinetis KL8x family, which retains many of the same world-class security features, while leveraging the energy-efficiency of the ARM Cortex®-M0+ core to address secure mobile applications including point of sale products.