NXP Ships 500 Millionth RF CMOS Transceiver for Mobile Handsets

Evidence of strengthening NXP market position in cellular RF transceiver market following successful Silicon Laboratories Inc. cellular business acquisition

Underscoring its widespread presence within next-generation mobile devices, NXP Semiconductors today announced the shipment of its 500 millionth Aero RF CMOS transceiver to the mobile handset market. Of this 500 million, some 100 million were shipped in the past seven months alone, fresh off the heels of the company’s acquisition earlier this year of the cellular operations of RF CMOS-leader Silicon Laboratories. The shipments include sales of stand-alone RF CMOS transceivers and those integrated as part of NXP’s comprehensive cellular system platforms; they serve as major milestones for the company and are reflected in recent share increases in the wireless semiconductor market.

 

“This milestone shows how well we have integrated Silicon Laboratories’ cellular operations into NXP. We are witnessing the return on investment made to achieve scale and innovation power. We will continue to take necessary steps to build leadership in mobile communication,” said Marc Cetto, Executive Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile & Personal business at NXP Semiconductors.  “The availability of RF CMOS solutions within NXP that can scale in the same time frame with digital basebands to fine line CMOS gives NXP the rare ability to create highly integrated single-chip cellular products meeting the strict performance requirements of the market.   We expect to leverage this success in RF CMOS, capturing additional market share, expanding our current single-chip offering, and becoming a more formidable player than ever before.”

 

The 100 million RF CMOS transceivers sold in the past seven months are also illustrative of NXP’s rapid and successful integration of Silicon Laboratories’ industry-leading technology across NXP’s cellular product portfolio. Since completion of the acquisition in April 2007, the Aero family RF technology has been incorporated into over 80 percent of NXP’s GSM/GPRS/EDGE cellular platforms and, by early 2008, the company expects more than 90 percent of its cellular platforms will include this technology. With proven Aero RF CMOS capability widely deployed in NXP cellular platforms, on top of current BiCMOS offerings, NXP brings its customers the advantage of fully integrated system solutions with best-in-class performance, power and cost targets.

 

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NXP is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50 years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 37,000 employees working in more than 20 countries and posted sales of EUR 5 billion in 2006. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that deliver better sensory experiences in mobile phones, personal media players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.