NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors NV
legal form	NV
ISIN	NL0009538784
founding	September 2006
Seat	Eindhoven , Netherlands
management	Peter Bonfield ( Chairman ) Kurt Sievers (President & CEO )
Number of employees	44,000
sales	6,101,000,000 US dollars
Branch	Semiconductor industry
Website	www.nxp.com
As of December 31, 2015

Headquarters in Eindhoven

NXP (for N ext e XP erience) Semiconductors is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturer . NXP is the semiconductor division of Royal Philips spun off in 2006 . NXP offers semiconductors and system solutions for the automotive market, for televisions, set-top boxes , cell phones and security solutions for bank cards, electronic ID cards, passports and health cards . Chips with MIFARE technology are used in numerous traffic systems and event centers around the world. After taking over Freescale , NXP is Europe's largest semiconductor manufacturer.

history

NXP emerged from Philips Semiconductors , the semiconductor division of Philips . Philips had expanded this division based on its own, initially radio tube and later semiconductor companies such as Valvo (Germany), Mullard (Great Britain) and the integration of acquired manufacturers: Signetics was bought in 1975, VLSI Technology was added in 1999.

On September 29, 2006, the Philips group sold 80.1 percent of its semiconductor division to a consortium of private investment companies; Philips itself retained 19.9 percent of the shares. The consortium consisted of the financial investors KKR , Bain Capital , Silver Lake , Apax and AlpInvest Partners NV. The new establishment was announced in 2006 at the Berlin International Radio Exhibition by the then NXP CEO Frans van Houten (now CEO of Philips).

During the subsequent reorganization, in 2008 NXP brought its "Mobile & Personal" division into a joint venture with STMicroelectronics under the name ST-NXP-Wireless . In the following year STMicroelectronics also took over the remaining 20 percent share of NXP and brought ST-NXP-Wireless into another joint venture between ST-Ericsson and the Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP) division of the Swedish company Ericsson .

As part of the reorganization, various semiconductor factories were closed, including those in Böblingen in 2008 .

On December 31, 2008, Frans van Houten announced his immediate resignation and left the company on the same day. Richard L. Clemmer, who previously worked for Agere and Texas Instruments and most recently for KKR, was appointed in his place.

After the restructuring was completed, NXP announced its planned IPO in the spring of 2010, which took place on August 6, 2010.

On March 2, 2015, it was announced that NXP would acquire Freescale Semiconductor . The takeover was carried out both in shares and in cash. The process was completed on December 7, 2015. At that time, the former Freescale shareholders held around one third of the new company.

The standard semiconductor division was sold to a state-controlled Chinese consortium in summer 2016 and was named Nexperia . On October 27, 2016 it was announced that Qualcomm would like to take over NXP completely. The transaction should be completed by the end of 2017. In June 2018, Qualcomm abandoned its acquisition efforts. At the same time, Qualcomm announced the start of a share buyback program with a volume of 30 billion US dollars.

In September 2018, NXP took over Omniphy, a provider of Ethernet subsystem technologies for the automotive sector.

In May 2019 it was announced that NXP would take over the area for WLAN and Bluetooth chips with 500 employees from the Marvell Technology Group .

The company is one of the first major members of the FIDO alliance , which developed the industry standard Universal Second Factor (U2F) for generally applicable two-factor authentication .

Main markets

Semiconductor chips from NXP

NXP focuses on semiconductor products and system solutions for the following markets:

• Automobile (safety, comfort, entertainment) - e.g. B. ABS sensors (ABS: anti-lock braking system ), radio keys , electronic immobilizer , vehicle electrical systems , car radio , infotainment systems, telematics ; approx. 36% of sales.
• Identification - (security and logistics based on RFID and NFC technology) - e.g. B. Contact and contactless bank cards, electronic passports, ID cards, electronic entry and travel tickets, inventory tracking, including standard (multimarket) microcontrollers ; approx. 49% of sales.
• Standard semiconductors - discrete components , standard logic modules and interface products for e.g. B. serial interfaces ( UARTs ) or components with I²C bus.

Activities in Germany

The headquarters of NXP in Germany is in Hamburg-Lokstedt . With production, research and development activities and global business responsibility for three out of five departments (so-called business units for automotive , security & connectivity and standard products ), the Hamburg location plays an important role within the group. The factory for discrete semiconductors in Lokstedt, which produces around a quarter of all diodes and transistors sold worldwide with a production of around 70 billion individual components, is now part of the outsourced Nexperia . Other locations are in Dresden (research and development) and sales offices in Munich and Stuttgart. The location in Starnberg was closed in 2006 (during Philips times), another one in Hausbruch at the end of 2010. The number of employees at NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH has now been reduced to around 1,200 permanent employees (as of 2016).

The federal government has commissioned NXP as the main supplier of the security chips for the new identity cards; For reasons of delivery security, it usually awards such orders to at least two manufacturers. In addition to the new German ID card, NXP also supplies the majority of the security chips for the electronic passport and for the electronic tickets of the eTicket Germany .

Holdings

NXP holds stakes in the following companies:

• Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Cooperation (SSMC), 61%, semiconductor factory in Singapore
• Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (ASMC), 27%, semiconductor factory in Shanghai
• Jilin NXP Semiconductors, 60%, semiconductor factory in China
• A 40% stake in the Chinese joint venture Suzhou ASEN Semiconductors with the Taiwanese Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) was sold to ASE in 2018.

Web links

Commons : NXP Semiconductors  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• NXP Semiconductors website (in Germany)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Form 20-F 2015
2. ↑ "COMPANY NEWS; PHILIPS IN $ 1 TRILLION DEAL FOR VLSI TECHNOLOGY" , New York Times , May 4, 1999. Accessed: February 20, 2012.
3. ↑ About us - General Information (English) ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the ST-Ericsson website 
4. ↑ ZDFzoom from August 30, 2017
5. ↑ Sebastian Gerstl: NXP sells standard semiconductor division to China. In: elektronikpraxis.vogel.de. Vogel Business Media, June 14, 2016, accessed January 29, 2017 . 
6. ^ Qualcomm to Acquire NXP. In: Qualcomm.com. Qualcomm, October 27, 2016, accessed January 29, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Jürgen Kuri: Qualcomm gives up NXP takeover. In: Heise online . July 26, 2018 . Retrieved July 26, 2018.
8. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.golem.de/news/1-7-millionen-us-dollar-nxp-kauf-wlan-und-bluetooth-bereich-von-marvell-1905-141600.html
9. ^ ^{A b c} Qualcomm-NXP Semiconductors Could Create A Behemoth In The Automotive Semiconductor Space. Forbes , September 30, 2016, accessed October 4, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Varinia Bernau: New identity card - Netherlands - Germany 1: 0. In: sueddeutsche.de . August 19, 2010, accessed February 4, 2015 . 
11. ^ Ross Mathis: NXP helps Germany get ready for automated fare collection. In: secureidnews.com. February 20, 2012, accessed February 4, 2015 . 
12. ↑ About NXP Semiconductors ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. NXP information page, accessed March 9, 2012 
13. ↑ ASMC Capital Structure information page from ASMC, accessed March 9, 2012
14. ↑ NXP Semiconductors sells China JV stake as Qualcomm takeover awaits Beijing nod. Reuters , March 28, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018 .