Special Supplement: LED maker, Samsung cooperation

Freescale Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics, a world leader in display technology, have announced collaborative efforts to advance the burgeoning market for energy-saving and environmentally friendly light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

"Freescale's LED backlight driver technology is the industry's most compact and integrated solution," said Arman Naghavi, vice-president and general manager of Freescale's Analog, Mixed-Signal and Power Division. "Our collaboration with Samsung on LED backlighting - clearly a disruptive technology - will help spur further innovation and growth in the liquid crystal display (LCD) market."

Freescale began sampling its LED display technology to Samsung last December and introduced the first LED backlight products in its portfolio of standard power management intergrated circuits (ICs) in September.