Got this e-mail from NXP:
Dear Friends, Partners and Colleagues:
Earlier this year, NXP Semiconductors accelerated our strategy in Secure Connections for a Smarter World by announcing our merger with Freescale Semiconductor. I am happy to announce we have closed this deal and today we are the fourth-largest, non-memory semiconductor company in the world.
“As of today, we are now the world leader in identification, automotive, general purpose microcontrollers, and radio frequency power transistors.”
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Today's merger allows us to join Freescale's strength in secure embedded processing with NXP's leadership in security and connectivity, enabling us to provide an ever-increasing amount of total solutions for you. As of today, we are the company with the most complete IoT technology portfolio, allowing us to uniquely partner with you and help you capture the growth of the emerging Smarter World.
As a result of the merger, we have become the world leader in automotive semiconductors. This greatly empowers NXP to work shoulder to shoulder with the automotive industry, governments, institutions and consumer technology giants interested in this space. Together we can drive the evolution and adoption of Secure Connected Vehicles and Automated Driving Assistance Solutions, as we prepare ourselves for a future of secure, self-driving vehicles.
We're also able to expand our list of global leadership positions to help you create greater designs and solutions. As of today, we are now the world leader in identification, automotive, general purpose microcontrollers, and radio frequency power transistors.
And this is just the beginning. NXP's 45,000 employees spread across more than 100 locations in 35+ countries, supported by 9,000 patent families, tirelessly work to turn technology into leading solutions that support you. We are enabling technology to help you have an ever-increasing positive impact on society, now and in the future.
NXP is firmly on its way to being the leader in providing Secure Connections — and the supporting infrastructure — for the Smarter World. How all this is coming together as one newly combined company will be on full display at the upcoming CES 2016 show in Las Vegas. If you want to set up a demo tour or a meeting while at CES, please send us an email.
Sincerely,
Rick Clemmer
President & CEO
NXP Semiconductors
Also, navigating to freescale.com automatically redirects to nxp.com
2015 certainly was a turbulent year in the business. Dialog bough Atmel, Agilent became Keysight (for good, although its been happening for a while), and now Freescale becomes NXP.
Any bets on what semi-conductor company will be the next one to be bought/merged ?