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• Research and Markets: Evaluate the Future Plans of the Contract Manufacturer Philips Semiconductors

  - 2006-11-17

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c45492) has announced the addition of Philips Semiconductors: 2006 Contract Manufacturing Profile to their offering.

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• NXP Semiconductors appoints senior execs

  - 2006-11-01

  NXP Semiconductors, formerly Philips Semiconductors, has appointed four senior executives to the board of management of its holding company NXP b.v. The company has named Frans van Houten as president and CEO and chairman, Peter van Bommel as EVP and CFO, and Theo Claasen and Hein van der Zeeuw...

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• Tessera and NXP, Formerly Philips Semiconductors, Sign New Technology Licensing Agreement

  - 2006-11-01

  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA), a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, today announced that it has signed a new technology licensing agreement with NXP B.V., one of Europe's largest semiconductor companies. NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductors B.V., uses Tessera's advanced packaging technologies in many...

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• Philips Semiconductors Now Known as NXP

  - 2006-09-01

  After being bought by a consortium of private equity investment companies, Philips Semiconductors will now simply be known as NXP.

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• Philips Semiconductors Becomes NXP; Fifty Years of Innovation and a Rich IP Portfolio Firmly Establishes NXP as Europe's Second Largest Semiconductor Company

  - 2006-08-31

  BERLIN -- Philips Semiconductors CEO Frans van Houten today revealed the company will move forward as NXP, marking a milestone in its 53 year history as it becomes independent from Royal Philips. The name change announcement follows an agreement between Royal Philips and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. KKR, Bain...

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• Philips Semiconductor sold to private-equity firm; Repositions for future competition.(News)

  - 2006-08-14

  Byline: PHIL CARSON Byline: PHIL CARSON

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• Fab Owners Association Jumps to 30 Members & Associates; Philips Semiconductors and MagnaChip Semiconductors Join as Voting Members, Along with Seven New Associates

  - 2006-04-24

  CUPERTINO, Calif. -- The Fab Owners Association FOA, the association of semiconductor manufacturing executives and suppliers, has announced that Philips Semiconductors (Fishkill, NY) and MagnaChip Semiconductor (Seoul, Korea) have joined the organization as voting members. Applied Mechanical Corporation; CAE Online, Inc.; CIMAC, Inc.; Entrepix, Inc.; FabTime, Inc.; Toppan Photomasks, Inc.;...

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• PHILIPS HAS NO INTENTION OF LETTING UP ON ITS SEMICONDUCTOR ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE.(Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.)

  - 2005-10-13

  The Dutch group Philips intends to continue to invest in, and has no intention of letting up on, its semiconductor activities in Europe said the Vice President of Philips Semiconductors, Indro Mukerjee, during a press conference on October 5. Mr Mukerjee, who was in Paris to ...

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• Amino will Port Advanced Software Stack For IPTV Set-Top Boxes on Philips' Semiconductors Reference Design

  - 2005-08-26

  CAMBRIDGE, England -- Amino today announced that its advanced software stack for IPTV set-top boxes will be combined with Philips NexperiaTM home entertainment engine PNX8550 to be ported to the STB810 semiconductors reference and development platform for set top boxes. The integration of Amino's software will create a ready to...

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• Higher yields with trench-first BEOL.(Industry Watch)(back end of line)(low-k dielectrics)

  - 2005-02-01

  In back-end-of-line (BEOI,) processing, important changes include the replacement of low-k dielectrics with ultralow-k dielectrics and the non-linear increase of copper resistivity with sub-100 nm scaling of interconnect dimensions. In a recent paper presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting IEDM, the Crolles, France-based joint...

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