NXP today announced that industry expert Mark Lunsford has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. He is responsible for overseeing NXP’s Americas sales and marketing teams, focused on helping customers succeed with NXP’s mixed-signal and standard products solutions and enabling new business opportunities.
“Mark has a proven track [...]

NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC (collectively, the “Issuers” or “NXP”) announced today that they have entered into a private transaction with an investment manager and its affiliates on July 17, 2009 (the “Private Transaction”), whereby the Issuers agreed (i) to purchase $54,000,000.00 of U.S. dollar-denominated 77/8% senior secured notes due 2014 (the “Secured Notes”) [...]

Leuven, Belgium – July 14, 2009 – IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate first process and a step forward towards fabricating aggressively scaled germanium-pFET transistors.
To scale CMOS technology [...]

Launches Industry’s Most Power Efficient Discrete Doherty Amplifier Based on the Gen 7 LDMOS BLF7G22L-130 Transistor
2009 International Microwave Symposium
Expanding its portfolio of industry-leading RF power solutions, NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today unveiled the world’s most efficient 3-way Doherty amplifier, enabling a new standard of energy efficient RF base stations.
Based on [...]

EEMBC-certified LPC1700 Series Now Extended With 512KB Flash Options
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today confirmed that the LPC1700 series is the industry’s highest performance Cortex-M3 microcontroller, based on results from the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC). The EEMBC results show that the LPC1700 executes application code on average 35% faster than [...]

Q1 Highlights
Q1 sales USD 673* M versus USD 1,519 M in Q1 2008 and USD 979** M in Q4 2008
Comparable QoQ sales decrease of 29.4%
Q1 adjusted EBITDA (excluding effects of Purchase Price Accounting) was a loss of USD 71M, compared to a profit of USD 183M in Q1 2008 and a profit of USD 41M [...]

NXP’s new DVB-C Solution, STB150, Speeds Manufacturer Time to Market as Operators Convert Analog TV Subscribers to Digital Services
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today unveiled the new STB150 system solution, delivering a complete production-ready platform for the fast growing digital cable TV services market. The NXP STB150 integrates the powerful [...]

NXP Solution Supports HD Capabilities and Enhanced Set-Top Box Functionality
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced that its complete DVB-S2/MPEG-4 digital video recorder (DVR) set-top box (STB) solution has been incorporated in the latest Amstrad DRX780UK HD satellite receiver. Amstrad, a leading manufacturer of digital STBs and subsidiary of pay TV [...]

Version 5.30 compiler delivers industry-leading code size and support for MISRA-C:2004 checking
IAR Systems has announced Version 5.30 of IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® technology, its integrated development environment (IDE) for building and debugging embedded applications. This latest version introduces new debug capabilities for ARM® Cortex™-M3 processors that were previously only available in dedicated devices [...]

Latest ARM Cortex Processor Combines 32-Bit Performance with Ultra-Low Power
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced that it will be the first ARM Partner to license the new ARM® CortexTM-M0 processor. The Cortex-M0 processor is the smallest, lowest power and most energy efficient processor available from ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)]. [...]