(July 1, 2005) Austin, Texas &#8212 Freescale Semiconductor has recently joined NANOCMOS, an integrated project funded by the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies Program that breaks new ground in materials, processes, device architectures, and interconnections to push performance and density limits of semiconductors. Freescale’s participation was approved by the project partners during the NANOCMOS general assembly, and was validated by the European Commission.