NXP Semiconductors N.V. enables secure connections for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets.
NXP’s eIQ Agentic AI Framework opens the door to autonomous agentic intelligence in edge applications, delivering real-time autonomous decision-making.
NXP's i.MX 95 features the eIQ Neutron NPU with up to six Cortex-A55s in the application domain, a M7, and an M33 in two separate lower-power safety domain islands that can be...
The sensor provides the full capability of NXP’s third-generation 28-nm RFCMOS, long-range detection—2 to 300 meters worth of detection range—plus elevation sensing.
The Internet of Things has made our lives more connected and automated than ever before, with accelerated adoption across homes, buildings, and industrial environments.
These compact devices and modules become final additions for RF radios handling voice, data, and video over a wide range of frequencies and bandwidths.
Adoption of wireless technology for electronic devices worldwide continues to ramp up across a range of industries—and that trajectory is expected to remain strong and steady ...
Next-generation vehicles will be defined by software, not hardware, with cloud software concepts like containers delivering an agile approach to swapping out and updating software...
Today’s cars are bursting with wireless connectivity solutions, but they’re distributed throughout the vehicle, creating implementation challenges and cybersecurity nightmares...
By building key components into design kits and application platforms, suppliers give circuit and system designers head starts in getting the most value and performance for their...
Greater efficiency, reduced size and weight, and the marriage of multiple technologies lets NXP’s GaN MCMs help get 5G networks designed and deployed in less time.
NXP's UWB and Bluetooth technologies work together to provide greater location accuracy for Samsung Galaxy SmartTag+, and presage evolving UWB use cases.
NXP looks to get ahead of the curve on Wi-Fi 6/6E adoption in growing markets like industrial applications, the IoT, and home/enterprise access points.
Low-power radar MMICs at 24 and 77 GHz provide the electromagnetic-sensor data that combines with video cameras and LiDAR systems for reliable ADAS coverage.
Discrete GaN transistors, whether in die or packaged forms, offer high power density to boost pulsed signals in C-, L-, and S-band radars and communications applications.
With 1.2-Gb/s data rates, these connectivity solutions bring fluidity and low latency to gaming consoles, smart consumer IoT hubs, AR/VR devices, and more.
The retail experience is gearing up to get a whole lot smarter. Smart Retail initiatives centering on ultra-wideband technology could enhance the shopper experience, all while...
With the standard’s adoption on the rise, NXP’s portfolio of Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) devices is expected to help push it into IoT/IIoT, automotive, and access markets.
Armed with several semiconductor technologies, NXP is readying for the requirements of 5G infrastructure systems with discrete devices and compact modules.
As semiconductor developers have shown at the 2019 IEEE IMS, 5G infrastructure is well on its way around the world—and the U.S. has quite a bit of catching up to do.
From discrete high-power transistors to highly integrated ICs with combinations of analog and digital functions, the 2019 IMS exhibition will provide a good look at the latest...
The characteristics of different substrates and device architectures make it possible to reach many speeds and frequencies with modern semiconductor devices and their packages...
Integrating a power amplifier, a pre-driver amplifier, and a receiver switch/low-noise amplifier, this flexible front-end solution is equipped for next-generation 5G communications...
Suppliers of these devices are all in, not only targeting applications like wireless communications and radar systems, but also the emerging RF energy arena.
NXP admitted it could take several more months to resolve finger-wagging from both shareholders and antitrust regulators over its $47 billion sale to Qualcomm.
Technology Editor Chris De Martino talks with Dr. Klaus Werner of the RF Energy Alliance about the current climate surrounding the world of RF solid-state energy.
If the mark of critical technology is that companies are willing to sue to protect it, and governments are blocking other countries from buying it, then gallium nitride will only...
Advances in silicon LDMOS technology and device packaging have converged to create miniature RFICs capable of meeting the signal-amplification needs of small cells in wireless...
MW&RF talks with NXP's Paul Hart about the company's integration with Freescale, the issues surrounding 5G, and the latest trends making an impact on NXP's products...
Higher power densities and frequencies are pushing packages to their limits, while emerging wireless applications such as IoT and 5G crave lower-cost housings.
Expect 2016 to be a busy year, as plans are in motion to create technologies with capabilities that push past the boundaries of today’s state-of-the-art solutions.
Millimeter-wave technology has become more widespread, as evidenced by the large number of higher-frequency products available today. With 5G on its way, millimeter-wave bands...
The New Year is upon us, allowing us to have the opportunity to take a closer look at what the RF/microwave industry will have in store for 2016. While we’ve seen plenty of technology...
Innovations in RF/microwave product areas continue as manufacturers prepare for higher-volume applications in mobile wireless communications products and wearable devices.
Silicon devices still provide generous power levels through about 2 GHz, while GaN discrete transistors are filling many higher-frequency requirements for high output power.
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a solid-state RF oven proof of concept to further demonstrate the RF heating technology to home appliance manufacturers.
Record crowds at this year’s show were treated to an impressive display of new component, system, test, and software products at more than 900 exhibition booths.
Test equipment and measurement methods have long been the cornerstones of RF/microwave electronic technologies, even though they are also often taken for granted as part of the...
This millimeter-wave chipset provides scalable performance for automotive safety systems for cruise control, braking systems, and numerous other functions.
When combined with a PC or laptop computer and an evaluation board, this instrument streamlines the optimization of a wide range of RF/microwave amplifiers.
The growing number of 77-GHz automotive radar systems has put pressure on RF/microwave test-and-measurement-equipment manufacturers to develop cost-effective measurement solutions...
At IMS 2013, Microwaves & RF presented the first-annual "Best of Microwaves" awards, recognizing companies that are at the forefront of providing resources to microwave engineers...
An RF power solutions company and a mixed signals semiconductor company have joined forces to optimize small cell technology for the base station market.
Recently, we reached out to our readers and asked you to let us know what your favorite online tools are for keeping up to date with your industry. After tallying all your responses...
With the rise of advanced driver assistant systems (ADASs), automotives will increasingly gain safety features and progress toward the point where each car is its own network....
Advanced semiconductor materials are vital to the technology growth of the armed forces, which hope to use both gallium nitride and graphene devices in future systems.
Held in Canada for only the second time in its history, the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) brought a large influx of microwave engineers to Montreal, Quebec...
Think plumbing when you think of microwaves. At least that is the way it used to be. Lots of waveguides and metal structures with cavities. And tubes. Today much of that plumbing...
Most wireless today is microwave. But it wasn't always that way. Microwave was initially associated with radar, transmission lines and other special wireless applications like...
One of the leading suppliers of high-power RF/microwave transistors and amplifiers based on silicon LDMOS technology, Freescale Semiconductor, has announced its first power amplifier...
Discrete power transistors support RF and microwave large-signal applications with a variety of technologies, ranging from older silicon semiconductors to mixes of materials using...
High-frequency circuit and device designers rely on a number of different semiconductor processes, each with strengths in different applications areas.
Power transistors continue to gain in performance at RF and microwave frequencies, drawing upon numerous semiconductor materials for improved power and efficiency.
From AESA to UASs, current and future airborne radar systems are providing more intelligence in smaller and lighter forms while withstanding harsher environments.
Model MRFE6VP6300H/HS is a rugged silicon LDMOS power transistor from Freescale Semiconductor capable of 300 W continuous-wave (CW) or pulsed output power from 1.8 to 600 MHz....
High-power RF and microwave signal levels are produced by both vacuum tubes and transistors in military systems, with demands for ever-increasing efficiency and smaller size.
Even during a year beset by economic challenges, creative high-frequency firms found ways to transform innovative engineering ideas into practical products.
To meet the size, integration, and performance requirements of next-generation communications and defense application, companies are leveraging unique and even proprietary, process...
As commercial and military solid-state amplifier designers strive for higher power levels from their assemblies, device developers are being asked for more power per RF/microwave...
Freescale Semiconductor and Arada Systems have jointly created a production-ready reference design they claim will speed and simplify the development of concurrent 802.11n access...
Lansdale Semiconductor announced the availability of three popular wireless ICs originally developed by Freescale Semiconductor. Lansdale has the single-source rights to globally...
Applied Wave Research, Inc. has augmented its Microwave Office(R) 2007 design software simulation library with sixth-generation laterally-diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS...
Freescale Semiconductor took the wraps off the world's highest-power LDMOS transistor at this week's MTT-S in Honolulu. The company's model MRF6VP11KH delivers 1 kW pulsed output...
