NXP Announces Shipment of 500 Millionth RF CMOS Transceiver for Mobile Handsets

NXP Semiconductors has 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, fresh off the heels of the company’s acquisition earlier this year of the cellular operations of RF CMOS company Silicon Laboratories, NXP said.
The shipments include sales of stand-alone RF CMOS transceivers and those integrated as part of NXP’s cellular system platforms.

“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.”

According to NXP, 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’ 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.

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