AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Only two years after launching an ambitious initiative to expand and promote the industry-wide utilization of copper wire assembly technology, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) has shipped its billionth copper wire component. Freescale final manufacturing sites in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Tianjin, China today produce more components in technically superior copper wire bonding at excellent quality levels than in traditional gold wire. The company anticipates t