If Freescale is anything like the place I used to work, even showing up with a decent list of benefits and a small suitcase with $50K won't get the ball moving very quickly nor very far. Once the sum reaches $100k then some eyes begin to open. At $250k+ you may get some workable steam and semi-firm commitments.

You also can't forget that most of the time, the people you'll be talking to are going to have to spend some brain power on any proposals. And it's not something they're going to get paid any additional sums to do. Some people have their official responsibilities and accounts and that's all they want to deal with. Money in the company's pocket isn't necessarily money in their pocket, so until such time as you can get the information to other people with perhaps more pull/power and make the financial reward significant, you may see no traction.