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Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 June 2006
Employment effect (start)
3 July 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
Freescale Semiconductor expanded its activity in Romania by opening a software centre in Bucharest where it shall develop software applications for equipments intended for communication infrastructures and mobile platforms 2G and 3G.
According to the General Manager of Freescale in Romania, Adrian Purcarea, the value of the investment “is of six figures”. The new unit disposes of an area of 5,000 square meters and will create 200 new jobs, a number that shall yet increase significantly by the end of the year. As result the number of specialists employed at Freescale in Romania will reach about 400.
The company is on the Romanian market for six years now, its main field of activity being the supply of semiconductors.
Eurofound (2006), Freescale Semiconductor, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 63732, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63732.
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