NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power Management, Interface, Security and Digital Processing expertise. These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. A global semiconductor company with operations in more than 25 countries, NXP posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2011.

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Facts & Figures

High Performance Mixed Signal

High Performance Mixed Signal solutions help our customers to satisfy their system and sub systems needs across eight application areas: automotive, identification, mobile, consumer, computing, wireless infrastructure, lighting and industrial. The below table provides an overview of our key applications and the leading products we sell into those areas.

Standard Products

Our Standard Products business supplies a broad range of standard semiconductor components, such as small signal discretes, power discretes and integrated discretes, which we largely produce in dedicated in-house high-volume manufacturing operations. Our Standard Products are often sold as separate components, but in many cases, are used in conjunction with our High Performance Mixed Signal solutions, often within the same subsystems.

The NXP Solution

We design and manufacture High Performance Mixed Signal semiconductor solutions to meet the challenging requirements of systems and sub-systems in our target markets. High Performance Mixed Signal solutions are an optimized mix of analog and digital unctionality integrated into a system or sub-system. These solutions are fine-tuned to meet the specific performance, cost, ower, size and quality requirements of applications.

High Performance Mixed Signal solutions alleviate the need for OEMs to possess substantial system, sub-system and component-level design expertise required to integrate discrete components into an advanced fully functional system. We have what we believe is an increasingly uncommon combination of capabilities in this area -our broad range of analog and digital echnologies, application insights and world-class process technology and manufacturing capabilities- to provide our customers with differentiated solutions that serve their critical requirements. Customers often engage with us early, which allows us to hone our understanding of their application requirements and future product roadmaps and to become an integral partner in their system design process 

Our Strengths

We believe we have a number of strengths that create the opportunity for us to be a leader in our target markets. Some of these strengths include:

• Market-leading products
  In 2011, the majority of our sales were generated by products for which we held the number one or number two market position based on product sales.
• Large base of experienced engineers and strong intellectual property portfolio
  We have what we believe is one of the industry’s largest pools of experienced High Performance Mixed Signal engineers. In addition, we have an extensive intellectual property portfolio of approximately 11,000 issued and pending patents covering the key technologies used in our target application areas.
• Deep applications expertise
  We have built, and continue to build, through our relationships with leading OEMs and through internal development efforts in our advanced systems lab, deep insight into the component requirements and architectural challenges of electronic system solutions in our target end-market applications, thereby enhancing our engagement in our customers’ product platforms.
• Strong, well-established customer relationships
  We have strong, well-established relationships with almost every major automotive, identification, mobile handset, consumer electronics, mobile base station and lighting supplier in the world.
• Differentiated process technologies and competitive manufacturing
  We focus our internal and joint venture wafer manufacturing operations on running a portfolio of proprietary specialty process technologies that enable us to differentiate our products on key performance features. By concentrating our manufacturing activities and by significantly streamlining our operations, we believe we have a competitive manufacturing base.

Research and Development

We believe that our future success depends on our ability to both improve our existing products and to develop new products for both existing and new markets. We direct our research and development efforts largely to the development of new High Performance Mixed Signal semiconductor solutions where we see significant opportunities for growth.

We target applications that require stringent overall system and subsystem performance. As new and challenging applications proliferate, we believe that many of these applications will benefit from our solutions. We have assembled a team of highly skilled semiconductor and embedded software design engineers with expertise in RF, analog, power management, interface, security and digital processing.

Corporate Social Responsibility

NXP believes taking responsibility for its impact on the world is fundamental to the company’s success and its ability to deliver value to customers, partners and employees, as well as protecting the environment for future generations. Whether it’s about people management, supplier relationships or product design, NXP has taken concrete steps in its sustainability and CSR commitment to be a positive force. NXP sets clear goals and adheres to international standards in the following areas: corporate governance, people practices, product development & manufacturing, environment and community responsibility.