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 [...]

TC TrustCenter and CI Plus Announce Significant Early Adoption of New Standard
Hamburg, Germany. 26th May 2009 – CI Plus, the CE industry backed technology for allowing secure delivery of premium pay TV services to Integrated Digital TV’s, Set Top Boxes and Personal Video Recorders, has announced the initial details of the take up of the [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling on May 22, 2009 that rejected Epistar’s appeal of the International Trade Commission’s (ITC’s) interpretation of the claims in Philips Lumileds’ U.S. Patent No. 5,008,718 (the ‘718 patent). In affirming the ITC’s interpretation, the Federal Circuit noted that “Epistar does not challenge the [...]

A world-premier solution delivers greener, more efficient street lighting
The streets of Pombal, Portugal, are brighter — and more eco-friendly — thanks to a patent-pending optical street-lighting solution developed by Fraen Corporation in partnership with Philips Lumileds.
Fraen and Philips collaborated to develop technology that would allow BlueSpan, a European company focused on sustainable lighting [...]

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 [...]

Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI) introduces €120 million new cost savings through performance excellence to Philips Sales & Marketing
21 April 2009 – Amsterdam – Selling and marketing consumer lifestyle products in the midst of a global recession is not easy – and to ensure its team was fully equipped for the challenge ahead, the Philips [...]

BlueSpan today announced that it has developed and implemented the first solid-state street lighting solution in Portugal along the Fidalgo Aprendiz in Pombal City using LUXEON® Rebel LEDs. The new street lights are approximately 60% more efficient than the most common High-Pressure Sodium lamps that were initially considered to replace the actual Mercury Vapor lamps [...]

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 [...]

– Company reports $3.4 billion in new business signed; Global customer wins increase 172 percent year-over-year; North America Middle-Market segment grows 63 percent over prior year —
American Express Business Travel, a global industry leader in business travel management, today announced it helped clients globally realize more than $2 billion in travel and expense savings [...]