Eindhoven, Netherlands and Paris, France, November 15, 2011 – NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI), the global leader in the Identification market, announced today that it has received two SESAMES Awards for its NFC solutions. At its 16th annual award ceremony held at CARTES & IDentification 2011, an independent jury recognized NXP’s outstanding achievements in NFC with SESAMES Awards for the PN65 in the category Best Mobility Application and for the Android NFC open source software stack in the category Best Software. Rewarding technological innovation, the SESAMES Awards have become a well-respected benchmark in the smart card and identification industry.
Best Mobility Application: PN65 Secure NFC Module
A complete NFC solution, the PN65 includes NXP’s trusted PN544 NFC controller, an embedded Secure Element based on NXP’s SmartMX™ technology, a JavaCard operating system, and fully qualified NFC host software. As the industry’s first secure multi-application NFC system solution, the PN65 enables device manufacturers and application developers to bring secure applications such as Google Wallet to market. In addition, the PN65 ensures best-in-class interoperability with existing contactless reader infrastructures, which are also based on advanced NXP contactless technology. The PN65 is implemented in the Nexus S™ and Galaxy Nexus™ devices.
Best Software: NFC Host Software Stack for Android
Providing the open source NFC host software stack for Android has marked a major milestone in the development of the NFC ecosystem. With the integration of the NFC stack in Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), NXP instantly enabled mobile phone manufacturers and applications developers to design and launch NFC-enabled smartphones and applications. By offering the NFC software as an open source stack, NXP has helped to set the de-facto standard for NFC integration in mobile devices and proven its leading role in NFC – a move now acknowledged by the ID and security industry.
”At NXP, we strive to offer the latest, most advanced NFC solutions to our customers and to the mobile industry-at-large, and we are truly committed to the ongoing development of the NFC ecosystem,” explains Ruediger Stroh, executive vice president and general manager, Identification business, NXP Semiconductors. “NFC is a game-changing technology that is having a major impact – enabling secure and convenient mobile payment as we have seen with the launch of Google Wallet, while also opening a world of opportunity across multiple applications. We’re pleased to receive two SESAMES Awards this year acknowledging the advances we’ve made in building both the technology and ecosystem around NFC, and recognizing its future potential.”
In addition to the two award-winning NFC solutions, NXP was also nominated for the SESAMES Award in the category Trusted Internet / Authentication with its innovative on-card gesture recognition. With two winners and one finalist across ten categories, NXP was the most successful company in the SESAMES Awards 2011.
NXP at CARTES & IDentification 2011
The awards were presented on the eve of CARTES & IDentification, where NXP is showcasing brand-new demos highlighting the key role that ID technologies play, whether at work or at home, in transport or at leisure. The CARTES show in Paris is the largest show worldwide bringing together all the major players in digital security, payment, contactless and smart technologies.
Offering complete end-to-end solutions that ensure interoperability between cards, readers and mobile devices, NXP uses these technology capabilities to develop new markets for secure solutions in response to new global trends such as cloud computing, mobility, machine-to-machine authentication or smart grids. NXP is leveraging this end-to-end expertise to also drive the future of multi-application ID, where the same card or device is used to securely access a variety of services for increased user convenience. At CARTES, NXP will be showcasing new solutions in core markets such as banking, eGovernment and Automatic Fare Collection (AFC), as well as innovative applications in emerging areas such as mobile payments, gaming and smart metering.
Visitors to CARTES can experience NXP’s multi-application ID solutions at booth 4J 035, Hall 4.
About Near Field Communication (NFC)
NFC is a market proven technology co-invented by NXP in 2002. In 2004, NXP co-founded the NFC Forum to lead collaboration with all industry stakeholders and help standardize the technology. NFC technology evolved from a combination of contactless identification (RFID) and interconnection technologies. Ranked as the No. 1 contactless IC vendor by ABI Research for three years in a row, NXP is the global leader in NFC solutions, field-proven in over 150 NFC trials and landmark commercial deployments worldwide.
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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 $4.4 billion in 2010. For more information visit www.nxp.com.
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