1. Twenty passengers, 12 of whom were from Malaysia and eight from China, were employees of Freescale Semiconductor. Link
2. 4 of them were the patent holders of Chip KL-03 by Free Scale semiconductors - Peidong Wang,Zhijun Chen,Cheng and Li Ying Zhijong, all the Suzhou City - China ( As per patent office 3 of them only + Freescale as a company the fourth holder ) Their names listed by media as missing in MH370 but as per passenger manifest their names are missing
3. Upon the missing of the patent holders the patent went to Jacob Rothschild. Patent was approved 4 days later on 11th March 2014. Click here for the Patent PDF

For example, the various illustrative logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented or performed 30 with a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed 35 to perform the functions described herein. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine. A processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a 40 combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration. The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied 45 directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. A Software module may reside in RAM memory, flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage 50 medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor Such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. In the alternative, the storage medium may be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside 55 in an ASIC.

4. On December 7, 2015, 'NXP Semiconductors ' completed its acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor Inc for 16.7 Billion USD - Share value appreciated to around 36 $ from 23$ on the date of MH370 disappearance. NXP semiconductors
5. This Article about ASIC Designs published by NXP shows credit in footer as sponsored by freescale
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