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Several days after confirmation about possible talks in regards of takeover by a third-party, Freescale Semiconductor, a former semiconductor division of Motorola, announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by a private equity consortium in a transaction with a total equity value of $17.6 billion.

Under the terms of the merger agreement, the consortium, led by The Blackstone Group, and includes The Carlyle Group, Permira Funds and Texas Pacific Group, will acquire all of the outstanding Class A and Class B shares of Freescale for $40 per share in cash, representing a premium of approximately 36% over Freescale’s average closing share price during the 30 trading days ended September 8, 2006.

The board of directors of Freescale has unanimously approved the merger agreement and resolved to recommend that Freescale's stockholders adopt the agreement.

The merger is subject to customary conditions to closing, including the affirmative vote of Freescale stockholders and requisite antitrust approvals. The merger agreement contains a provision under which Freescale may solicit alternative proposals from third parties during the next 50 calendar days. In addition, Freescale may, at any time, subject to the terms of the merger agreement, respond to unsolicited proposals. If the company accepts a superior proposal, a break-up fee would be payable by the company. There can be no assurance of any alternative proposal.

There is no financing condition to the obligations of the private equity consortium to consummate the transaction, and equity and debt commitments for the full amount of the merger consideration have been received. It is currently anticipated that substantially all of the company’s outstanding Notes will either be tendered for or repaid.

Freescale Semiconductor, which was spun-off from Motorola Corp. several years ago, designs and manufactures various embedded semiconductors for wireless, networking, automotive, consumer and industrial markets. The company is known for its manufacturing of IBM PowerPC micro-architecture based processors.

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The proposed US$3 Billion investment in association with AMD in the first Large Scale Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility (FABCITY) in India would happen on a stretch of land along Srisailam Highway beside New Hyderabad Airport at Shamshabad. The progress of this investment is fully dependent on the Govt. of India's Policy for Semiconductor Fabrication. The Govt. had entered into agreement with Semindia for developing Fabcity in February 2006.

Semindia is a consortium of Non Resident Indians led by Technology Expert Mr. Vinod Agarwal. The Consortium has pulled in AMD which would be the Principal technology partner for Fabcity. Semindia has entered into agreements with Flextronics, IMEC-Belgium, BOC etc. Several Large agreements and contracts are expected to be finalized, as soon as Policy is released.

The Policy was to be announced soon after the signing of MOU in February, allowing Semindia to finance the equity and debt for the Project. However, the Govt. has been struggling to strike balance between expectations of the industry and possible loss of revenue due to incentives offered. Issue of technology obsolesce also has been raised.

Without clear guidelines and agreement / commitment on taxation, subsidies, incentives etc. the Financial Institutions and Investors would not come forward to commit funds. Hence, the soon to be released Policy, is the vital fulcrum on which the project would get founded.
Last few weeks has seen consistent reports from the Center, suggesting that the Policy would be released soon. A high powered technical committee headed by Mr. Ratan Tata had been working on the Policy. www.exclventures.com

The founding of FABCITY in Hyderabad is expected to result in explosive growth of technology led employment. Already golbal firms like Microsoft, IBM, Perot, Accenture, CA, HP, Templeton,Goldman Sachs, Google, Dell, Motorolla, Oracle, GE, Adobe, Sun, McAfee, Pacific, Unisys, USi, Cisco, Ericsson, Norton, Nokia, Sierra, Flextronics have set up offices at Hyderabad. The City has huge scope for expansion with gigantic investments planned in Guchibowli, Hitec, Manchirevula, Narsingi, Kokapet, Gandipet etc. The explosion in IT business activity has resulted in very large influx of professionals into Hyderabad making the real estate scene BOIL!

There are hundreds of NRIs and expatriates now working and buying luxurious properties. The upcoming international Airport, Express Highway to Airport, exploding growth in areas like Hitec City and Guchiboli have changed the face of the city!! Read more www.exclventures.com and monitor new projects including the GIGANTIC 90 Story Tower coming up in Hyderabad! Hyderabad is turning out to be the best spot for Global Investment.
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