The Company NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) announced restructuring program, designed to ensure a company's stable financial situation and create conditions for growth in the future. Changes in the structure of the company were developed to overcome the difficulties associated with work in a volatile world economic situation, the weakness of the U.S. dollar, as well as reduced...

NXP Semiconductors BV said Friday it will close or sell four plants, including one in New York state, and cut 4,500 jobs, or 14.5 percent of its global work force.

3G is so Monday. Today, NXP Semiconductors is getting down with the "world's fastest high-bandwidth cellular soft modem," which will obviously be aimed at smartphones, MIDs and other handhelds thirsting for WWAN. Notably, the PNX6910 supports multi-mode LTE / HSPA / UMTS / EDGE / GPRS / GSM capability, and it's reportedly capable of achieving data transfer rates of 150Mbits down and 50Mbits up. To

NXP Semiconductors has launched a mobile TV-out processor to enable TV-output on any mobile phone having a standard LCD screen. The NXP SAA8510 converts mobile digital video signals into high-quality analog TV signals, which can then be displayed on any NTSC and PAL TV set.

Today NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics announced that they will combine their wireless businesses in order to compete better in the wireless chip market. It will manufacture UMTS, TD-SCDMA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS chips. STMicroelectronics will assume 80% ownership of ...

NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics will combine their wireless businesses to compete in a cutthroat environment for chip makers. The two companies said in ... - Phil Carson

NXP Semiconductors has been selected by Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers, as one of its 3G solutions suppliers.

NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, will be demonstrating a dual-mode EDGE-WiMAX reference design at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 11-14, 2008. The dual-mode reference design highlights the extended mobility between the two wireless standards by combining NXP's Nexperia Cellular System Solution 5210 for EDGE networks with the forthcoming

NXP Semiconductors will demonstrate the world's first LTE /HSPA/ UMTS/ EDGE/ GPRS/ GSM multi-mode baseband platform which forms the basis of a next-generation Software Defined Radio (SDR) system solution at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

NXP Semiconductors and Purple Labs announced today the release of a 3G Linux reference feature phone offering video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming at a transfer price below US$100.