NXP’s new products, the BLD6G21-50 and BLD6G22-50, enable the highest power efficiency with reduced design size and operational costs
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today launched the world’s first fully integrated Doherty amplifiers for TD-SCDMA and WCDMA base stations, expanding its extensive portfolio of industry-leading RF power transistors. Maintaining NXP’s RF [...]

Frans van Houten to Resign as President and CEO
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced the appointment of Richard L. Clemmer as President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”). Mr. Clemmer succeeds Frans van Houten who is leaving NXP. Clemmer will assume the new role on January 1, 2009.
Sir Peter [...]

EINDHOVEN – October 23, 2008 – The international chemical and
pharmaceutical group Solvay today signs an agreement to become part of the
research network of Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by IMEC
(Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).
Flexible organic electronics – or systems-in-foil – will in the future be
driven by an industry producing, laminating and combining [...]

Positive operational cash flow in Q3
Q3 Highlights
Q3 sales USD 1,336M1 versus USD 1,644M in Q3 2007 and USD 1,524M in Q2 2008
Comparable YoY sales decrease of 4.2% and comparable QoQ sales increase of 1.0%
Q3 adjusted EBITDA (excluding effects of Purchase Price Accounting) USD 147M, compared to USD 310M in Q3 2007 and USD 114M [...]

NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) today announced the latest milestone of its environmentally conscious design process by announcing it has sold 250 million fluorescent lighting driver ICs. Fluorescent lamps are highly energy-efficient lighting solutions that save 80% energy compared with traditional incandescent light bulbs. Thanks to these fluorescent lamps, NXP has helped save 500 million [...]

Restructuring Targets USD 550 M Annual Cost Savings
NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) today announced a redesign program that will bring NXP to a healthy financial situation and position the company for future growth. The changes come in response to a challenging economic environment, a weak US dollar, and the reduction in size of the [...]

LEUVEN, Belgium and SAN DIEGO – July 14, 2008 – IMEC, Europe’s leading
independent nanoelectronics research institute, and Qualcomm Incorporated
(Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless
technologies and data solutions, today announced that Qualcomm is the first
fabless integrated circuit company to participate in IMEC’s industrial
affiliation program (IIAP) on three-dimensional (3D) integration. Qualcomm
and [...]

At today’s VLSI Symposium, IMEC reports an improved performance for its planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-based metal gates for the 32nm CMOS node. The inverter delay advanced from 15ps to 10ps. IMEC also simplified its high-k/metal gate process by decreasing the number of process steps from 15 to 9.
High-performance (low-Vt) high-k/metal-gate CMOS [...]

Former Ericsson CFO Joins Leading European Semiconductor Company
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today made the following announcement.
Peter van Bommel has decided to step down as CFO and to leave NXP for personal reasons, but will continue to support NXP in the successful creation of the wireless joint venture with [...]

Breakthrough Telematics Solution Enables Cost-Effective, Simple Installation and Enforcement
NXP and Siemens Mobility have reached an agreement to technically collaborate with each other in order to develop NXP’s new ATOP (Automotive Telematics On Board Unit Platform) into the ’single chip on-board unit’ system based on GPS and GSM. Once it is ready for the market, [...]