Jon Adams
Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Jon Adams runs Business Development for the short-range wireless unit at Freescale Semiconductor Inc. He specializes in wireless, including IEEE 802.15.4, RF4CE, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, WiMax, Bluetooth, Ultra Wideband, NFC/RFID and Cellular technologies. He is experienced in systems engineering, circuit-level implementation, regulatory policy, and market strategy in the handheld, mobile connectivity, multimedia, industrial, residential control and monitoring markets. He represents Freescale within the Continua Health Alliance and is marketing chair and technical vice-chair for the ZigBee Health Care group. He is knowledgeable in the cellular, embedded control and network infrastructure markets. He is on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization, the Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council and the Arizona Repeater Association. Mr. Adams has recently been a voting member of various IEEE802 groups and is a past Vice-Chair of the ZigBee Alliance. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2008 - present
- Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
- 2004 - 2008
- Director- Wireless Technology and Strategy, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
- 2000 - 2004
- Director, Systems Engineering, Motorola
- 1990 - 1998
- Seawinds SES/NSCAT Project Manager and Cognizant E, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 1983 - 1990
- Cognizant Engineer, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 1983 - 2000
- Project Manager 2, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Netbooks Promise a Sea Change in the PC Industry
August 28, 2009
Jon Adams, Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
Acer Q2 results show risks of cheap netbooks | www.reuters.com
The age of high-powered, application-generic desktop and notebook PCs is giving way to smaller, lighter, more targeted netbooks that satisfy most consumers' needs.
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Alphabet Soup: The ABCs of LED Backlighting for Consumer LCD TVs and Monitors
June 15, 2009
Jon Adams, Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
What’s an LED TV? | gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com
While LED (light emitting diode) technology is used in a number of ways in displays, the overwhelmingly common use is in backlighting of consumer LCD displays. LED backlighting provides a more power-efficient method for providing the backlight illumination that is needed to see the image created by...
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Verizon Stupid? No - Apple Smart.
July 25, 2007
Jon Adams, Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
Was Verizon Really Wrong To Pass On The iPhone? | telecom.seekingalpha.com
Verizon's decision to pass on the iPhone is a pragmatic battlefield decision and delaying tactic, hoping that Apple's impact on the cellular industry's walled garden concept will be minimal. AT&T's assent to hosting the iPhone and Apple will bring valuable short-term growth, but inthe...
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AT&T Adds Prepay Data and Messaging - So What?
June 15, 2007
Jon Adams, Director, Business Development, FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
AT&T Rolls Out GoPhone Pay As You Go Feature Packages | www.att.com
Why did it take AT&T so long? Billing should not be rocket science. The demand for prepay voice is well proven, SMS has been a winner for a long time; data is the biggest unknown, but MMS (photo and media) messaging could be a driver to push data volumes, but the price seems high.
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GLG Study Groups with Jon Adams(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Semiconductor Experts in GLG Member Programs (US) | 631 |
| Radio Frequency Identification Experts | 238 |
| Wimax Experts (North America) | 123 |
| Spectrum Auction and Access Experts (North America) | 84 |
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