Freescale offers good sensors for mobile

In a press release yesterday, Freescale announced that it was going to get into the increasingly lucrative mobile sensor business. Their offering will include a variety of small sensors designed to be implemented with Windows 8 mobile devices. "Included in the Freescale 12-axis sensor platform are the Xtrinsic MMA8451Q 3-axis accelerometer, Xtrinsic MAG3110 3-axis magnetometer, Xtrinsic MPL3115A2 precision altimeter, pressure and temperature sensor and an analog ambient light sensor."