Originally Posted By: Boelle
Mr. Herrmannsen,

Thanks for your suggestion but unfortunately we are not interested in pursuing this.

Regards,

Kevin

This (which someone on Riovolution found in the Wikipedia "Freescale" article) is unsourced but horribly plausible as a reason why Freescale/Sigmatel might have other things on their mind at about that time:
Originally Posted By: gomtuu@riovolution
On February 25, 2009, Freescale laid off 70% of the former Sigmatel team as part of a company-wide reduction in force. No new products under the old Sigmatel design teams will be created. A 'skeleton crew' was chosen to stay and support existing OEM customers that are using the existing chips until the chips are 'End Of Lifed'.


Peter