NXP Semiconductors N.V.

Global chip specialist NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq: NXPI) provides high-performance mixed signal semiconductors 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. Headquartered in Europe, the company has approximately 28,000 employees working in more than 25 countries and posted sales of USD 3.8 billion in 2009. One of biggest NXP locations is Hamburg with 1800 employees. Focus areas of NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH are chips for the automotive industry, identification solutions, and discrete transistors and diodes. NXP's security chips are used in electronic passports around the world - more than 75 countries rely on NXP, including Germany and the U.S. The selection of NXP by the German government for the new electronic national ID card (Personalausweis) underscores NXP’s leadership in secure identity. Another star product from Hamburg is the immobilizer for vehicles, which protects one out of every two cars in Europe against theft. Every third car produced in the world today features ABS sensors from NXP.

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