About NXP Semiconductors N.V.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. The company provides leading solutions that leverage its combined portfolio of intellectual property, deep application knowledge, process technology and manufacturing expertise in the domains of cryptography-security, high-speed interface, radio frequency (RF), mixed-signal analog-digital (mixed A/D), power management, digital signal processing and embedded system design. The company’s product solutions are used in a wide range of end market applications including automotive, industrial & Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, and communication infrastructure. The company engages with leading global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and sell products in all major geographic regions. Products The company offers customers a broad portfolio of semiconductor products, including microcontrollers, application processors, communication processors, connectivity chipsets, analog and interface devices, RF power amplifiers, security controllers and sensors. Using its strong Automotive & Industrial portfolios, the company is enhancing its product offerings by providing solutions for the growing ecosystems in and around the vehicle, in smart factories and in homes and buildings. The company has the broadest ARM processor portfolio in the industry, from microcontrollers to crossover processors and from application processors to communication processors. Microcontrollers The company has been a provider of MCU solutions. MCUs integrate all of the major components of a computing system onto a single semiconductor device. Typically, this includes a programmable processor core, memory, interface circuitry and other components. MCUs provide the digital logic, or intelligence, for electronic applications, controlling electronic equipment or analyzing sensor inputs. The company is a trusted, long-term supplier of MCUs to many of its customers, especially in the automotive, smartcards, industrial and consumer markets. The company’s MCU product portfolio ranges from 8-bit products to higher performance 16-bit and 32-bit products with on-board flash memory. The company’s portfolio is highly scalable, and is coupled with its extensive software and design tools. This enables its customers to design-in and deploy its MCU families, leveraging a consistent software development environment. Due to the scalability of its portfolio the company is able to help future-proof its customer’s products as their systems evolve, becoming more complex or requiring greater processing capabilities over time. For automotive applications, the company’s microcontrollers deliver the required reliability, security and functional safety to address current and future automotive challenges. In an increasingly connected and networked society, where security is playing a more important role, the company’s MCU families are equipped with varying security features (such as remote authentication, system/data integrity, secure communication and anomaly detection) to address different type of security risks. The company’s i.MX RT crossover processors are built using applications processors chassis, delivering a high level of integration, high speed peripherals, enhanced security, and engines for enhanced user experience (for example, 2D/3D graphics), but powered by a low-power MCU core running a real-time operating system like Amazon Free RTOS or Zephyr RTOS. The i.MX RT series offers the high performing Arm Cortex-M core, real-time functionality, and MCU usability at an affordable price. The company’s new MCX MCU family of Arm Cortex-M based MCUs, builds on the strength of its Kinetis and LPC portfolio. The MCX series also integrates its machine learning neural processing unit for machine learning applications. The company’s S32x Automotive Processing Platform offers scalability across products and multiple application domains with S32K MCU’s based on Arm Cortex-M cores with Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL-D) capabilities. Application Processors Application processors consist of a computing core with embedded memory and special-purpose hardware and software for secure multimedia applications such as graphics and video. The company’s products focus on consumer devices, industrial applications and automotive applications, like driver information systems, ADAS and vehicle networking that require processing and multimedia capabilities. The company provides highly integrated ARM-based i.MX application processors with integrated audio, video and graphics capability that are optimized for low-power and high-performance applications. The company’s i.MX family of processors are designed in conjunction with a broad suite of additional products, including power management solutions, audio codecs, touch sensors and accelerometers to provide full systems solutions across a wide range of operating systems and applications. The company’s i.MX 8 and 9 families are the latest generations of its general purpose application processors. The company’s i.MX 8 family is a feature and performance scalable multi-core platform that includes single, dual and quad-core families based on the Arm Cortex architecture for advanced graphics, imaging, machine vision, audio, voice, video, and safety-critical applications. Together, these products provide a family of applications processors featuring software, power and pin compatibility across single, dual and quad core implementations. Software support includes Linux and Android implementations. The company’s i.MX 9 series of application processors integrates hardware neural processing units across the entire series for acceleration of machine learning applications at the edge. In Automotive, the company’s S32x Automotive Processing Platform offers scalability across products and multiple application domains based on Arm Cortex-A, Cortex-R, and Cortex-M cores with Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL-D) capabilities with software compatibility from the MCU’s to SoC’s. Communication Processors Communication processors combine a computing core, caches and other memories, with high-speed networking and input/output interfaces, such as Ethernet and PCI Express. The company’s portfolio includes 64-bit Arm-based Layerscape processors with up to 16 CPUs and Ethernet ports running at up to 100Gbps. Software support includes Linux and commercial real-time operating systems. Within enterprise and data-center communications infrastructure, the company’s processors are used in switches, routers, SD-WAN access devices, Wi-Fi access points, and network security systems. Within service-provider communications infrastructure, its processors are used in cellular base stations, fixed wireless access Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), residential gateways, broadband aggregation systems, and core networking equipment. Although designed for use in communications infrastructure, these processors are also used in industrial and cloud server offload-applications. The company also offers Layerscape Access processors, which implement baseband functions, principally for wireless systems, such as 5G fixed wireless access and small cells. Wireless Connectivity The company offers a broad portfolio of connectivity solutions, including Near Field Communications (NFC), Ultra-wideband (UWB), Bluetooth low-energy (BLE), Zigbee, Thread as well as Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth integrated SoCs. These products are integrated into a wide variety of end devices, such as mobile phones, wearables, enterprise access points, home gateways, voice assistants, multimedia devices, gaming consoles, printers, automotive infotainment and smart industrial devices. Analog and Interface Products The company has a very broad portfolio of Analog and Interface products that are used in many markets, particularly automotive, industrial/IoT and mobile. In automotive the company is the market leader in most of the applications, with integrated 77Ghz Radar solution for ADAS, battery management products for Electrification, audio processing solutions and amplifiers for car entertainment, Controller Area Network (CAN), Local Interconnect Network (LIN), FlexRay and Ethernet solutions for in-vehicle networking and two-way secure products for secure car access. In Industrial/IoT and mobile, the company is a major supplier in interface, power and high-performance analog products. The company’s product portfolios includes I2C/I³C, General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO), LED controllers, real-time clocks, signal and load switches, signal integrity products, wired charging solutions, fast charging solutions, DC-DC, AC-DC converters and high-performance RF amplifiers. The company has also successfully engaged with leading OEMs to drive custom and semi-custom products which in turn allow it to refine and accelerate its innovation and product roadmaps. Radio Frequency Devices NXP is the market leader in High-Performance Radio Frequency (HPRF) power amplifiers. The company has an extensive portfolio of LDMOS, GaN and GaAs RF transistors. NXP’s solutions range from sub-6GHz to 40GHz and from milliwatts to kilowatts. For base stations, NXP offers a full range of solutions addressing 5G RF power amplification needs from MIMO to massive MIMO based active antenna systems for cellular and millimeter Wave (mmWave) spectrum bands. The company engages with the majority of the largest customers in mobile base stations and in several other application areas. In low and medium Power Amplification, NXPs low noise amplifier (LNA) portfolio offers solutions to meet future design needs in a wide range of applications. Two technologies serve the LNA portfolio, each with distinct advantages for their applications. Wireless infrastructure applications and many general wireless applications are served with III-V technology LNAs. Advanced SiGe technology is utilized in LNAs designed for wireless communication, cellular, consumer, automotive and industrial applications. Security Controllers NXP is the market leader in security controller ICs. The company’s security controller ICs are embedded in smart cards (ePassports, electronic ID credentials, payment cards and transportation cards), as well as in consumer electronic and smart devices, for example in smartphones, tablets and wearables. These security controller ICs are suited for applications demanding the highest security and reliability. Nearly all of the company’s security products consist of multi-functional solutions comprised of passive RF connectivity devices facilitating information transfer from the user document to reader infrastructure; secure, tamper-proof microcontroller devices in which information is securely encrypted (secure element); and secure real-time operating system software products to facilitate the encryption-decryption of data, and the interaction with the reader infrastructure systems. The company’s solutions are developed to provide extreme levels of security of user information, undergoing stringent and continued global governmental and banking certification processes, and to deliver a high level of device performance enabling significant throughput and productivity to its customers. Sensors Sensors serve as a primary interface in embedded systems for advanced human interface and contextual awareness that mimic the human 5 senses interaction with the external environment. The company provides several categories of semiconductor-based environmental and inertial sensors for the Automotive market, including pressure, inertial, magnetic and gyroscopic sensors that provide orientation detection, gesture recognition, tilt to scroll functionality and position detection. Acquisitions On January 9, 2024, NXP acquired shares in the newly founded European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, in Dresden, Germany. ESMC is 70% owned by TSMC, with Bosch, Infineon, and NXP each owning 10%. Sales, Marketing and Customers The company markets its products and solutions worldwide to a variety of OEMs, contract manufacturers and distributors. The company generates demand for its products by delivering product solutions to its customers, and supporting their system design-in activities by providing application architecture expertise and local field application engineering support. The company’s sales and marketing teams are organized into five regions, which are EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), the Americas, Japan, South Korea, and China and the Asia Pacific. These sales regions are responsible for managing customer relationships and creating demand for the company’s solutions through the full ecosystem development. In addition, the company’s sales and marketing teams in the regions partner with its distributors and its large number of mass market customers. The company’s sales and marketing strategy focuses on key defined verticals in Automotive, Industrial & IoT, Communication Infrastructure, and Mobile deepening its relationship with its top OEMs and electronic manufacturing service customers, expanding its reach to its mass market customers, startups and its distribution partners and becoming their preferred supplier. The company has long-standing customer relationships with most of its customers. The company’s 10 largest OEM end customers, some of whom are supplied by distributors, in alphabetical order, are Apple, Aptiv, Bosch, Continental, Denso, Hyundai, LGE Automotive, Samsung, Visteon, and Vitesco. The company also has a strong position with its distribution partners, including its three largest, Arrow, Avnet and WT Micro. The company’s revenue is primarily the sum of its direct sales to OEMs plus its distributors’ resale of NXP products. Avnet accounted for 21% of the company’s revenue in 2023. Research and Development The company’s research and development expenditures were $2,418 million in 2023. Intellectual Property The company has a broad portfolio of approximately 9,500 patent families (each patent family includes all patents and patent applications originating from the same invention). The company owns a number of trademarks that are used in the conduct of its business. Competition The company’s primary key public competitors in alphabetical order include, but are not limited to, Analog Devices Inc., Broadcom Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Microchip Technology Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Renesas Electronics Corp., STMicroelectronics NV and Texas Instruments Inc. History The company was founded in 2006. It was incorporated in Netherlands in 2006. The company was formerly known as KASLION Acquisition B.V and changed its name to NXP Semiconductors N.V. in 2010.