BEIJING, May 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced that the China Office of State Commercial Cryptography Administration (OSCCA) awarded it with a certificate to become a designated producer of commercial cipher products. This certificate marks NXP as the first, and currently only, approved foreign-based semiconductor company to be awarded authorization to develop and produce certified cryptography products in China.

The certificate reinforces NXP’s strong track record, leadership in information security, and recognizes the Company’s expertise in developing products in various fields where security and confidentiality are paramount, including financial payment, mobile communications, Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes and automotive electronics.

Officials from OSCCA Shanghai hailed the move as a major step forward, showing the Chinese government’s commitment to develop security for the smart electronics industry. Authorities welcomed NXP as the latest member of China’s certified commercial cryptography producers, and expect the Company to abide China’s business regulations and laws, and to support and improve the country’s information security.

“NXP is honored and extremely proud to receive this important certificate,” said Rafael Sotomayor, senior vice president and general manager of the smart transactions and identity business line at NXP, “China has always been an important market for us, and we are committed to providing Chinese customers with innovative solutions in the field of IoT and security. We will continue to focus in security innovation to meet the increasing demands of the local market and to support China achieve greater information security.”

“Acquiring this certificate is an important milestone in NXP’s development in China,” said NXP global senior vice president and president of greater China, Li Zheng. “NXP has more than 30 years of commitment to the China market, guided by our belief of Innovation for Technology, Collaboration for Partnership. We have worked with a wide range of Chinese industry leaders, sharing our insights and experience, developing products best-suited for the China market, and have helped train local talent. Looking to the future, we will continue to increase investment in R&D as we strive to provide more innovative products that can strengthen information security in the era of IoT.”

The Office of the State Commercial Cryptography Administration (OSCCA) is the central government administrative body that issues and regulates commercial cryptography certificate products in China. The administration maintains a research institute, cryptographic analysis and evaluation center and chip labs. The research institute is responsible for important scientific research tasks and serves the Party and government organs at all levels. The cryptographic analysis and evaluation center is a national cryptographic testing institution engaged in analysis, testing and comprehensive evaluation of cryptographic and cryptographic equipment. The chip labs undertake the task of researching important national ASICs.

About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure 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 secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has 31,000 employees in more than 33 countries and posted revenue of $9.5 billion in 2016. Find out more at www.nxp.com.

NXP and the NXP logo are trademarks of NXP B.V. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. © 2017 NXP B.V.

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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Aug. 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced that The Civil Status and Passports Department (CSPD) in Jordan has chosen NXP’s secure SmartMX2 microcontroller for its new contactless citizen ID card. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MoICT) anticipates deploying the new SmartMX2-based Jordanian ID cards to increase national security, improve counterfeit protection and extend public services. In collaboration with Gemalto, the world leader in digital security and the prime contractor of this project, NXP is embedding Gemalto’s Sealys MultiApp ID operating system in its microcontrollers.

The new Jordanian citizen card is a multifunctional form of identification which can be used for conventional citizenship while offering an array of new embedded social and economic applications such as storing travel itinerary, providing access to eBanking services, and secure voting and health insurance verification. The personal data and biometric features, such as the card holder’s photo and fingerprints, are stored securely on the SmartMX chip in digital form. These new cards will also help reduce congestion and process time for renewals, as well as decrease fraud and counterfeiting while increasing security and enhancing a number of government applications.

"Protecting personal data is a sensitive subject which requires a secure identification solution and a trusted partner capable of delivering a smooth system implementation,” said Ruediger Stroh, Executive Vice President of Security and Connectivity at NXP. “NXP has years of market understanding in eGovernment applications such as ePassport, ID cards, healthcare cards, vehicle registrations and driving licenses, all of which are designed to enable a smarter, more secure life for citizens."

Many citizens globally benefit from electronic identification solutions, which can protect personal privacy while securely assuring identity through the use of PIN codes or biometrics. The NXP SmartMX2 family of products is compatible with existing infrastructures and equipment, providing double the transaction speed of most other products in the market, while maintaining ultra-low power dissipation. The SmartMX2 product family has been verified by global institutions like the ICAO, the U.S. Department of Defense and the German Federal Government to be stable, reliable, and designed to have the highest security standards. The product family has the Common Criteria evaluation assurance level (CC EAL) 6+ certification.

About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the global leader in digital security, with 2015 annual revenues of €3.1 billion and customers in over 180 countries. We bring trust to an increasingly connected world. Our technologies and services enable businesses and governments to authenticate identities and protect data so they stay safe and enable services in personal devices, connected objects, the cloud and in between. Gemalto’s solutions are at the heart of modern life, from payment to enterprise security and the internet of things. We authenticate people, transactions and objects, encrypt data and create value for software – enabling our clients to deliver secure digital services for billions of individuals and things. Our 14,000+ employees operate out of 118 offices, 45 personalization and data centers, and 27 research and software development centers located in 49 countries. For more information visit www.gemalto.com or follow @gemalto on Twitter.

About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure 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 secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has 44,000 employees in more than 35 countries and posted revenue of $6.1 billion in 2015. Find out more at www.nxp.com.

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The Smart City Challenge is a nationwide competition which awards the winning, medium-sized U.S. city a prize of $50 million through the D.O.T. The prize recognizes the community’s innovative ideas for developing the connected city of the future and for addressing the challenges that growing populations present to transportation infrastructure. As the winning city, Columbus will additionally receive a broad array of advanced smart city technologies from NXP and other program partners.

“Technology like NXP’s will help bring Columbus’ vision to life, providing critical technology necessary for the development of America’s first truly smart city,” said U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “Smart transportation, identification and authentication solutions are essential components of creating ladders of opportunities – to build better transit and transportation systems for the future. These innovative technologies will allow cars to not only talk to each other to avoid accidents, but will also enable smarter infrastructure for the city itself, ensuring secure, connected experiences and smoother traffic flow for all Columbus’ residents.”

“We are honored to win this competition and couldn’t be more excited to start deploying NXP’s innovative, leading-edge technologies to help create a safer, more streamlined city for all of our residents,” said Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther. “With the help of great partners like NXP, we are on our way toward establishing Columbus as a worldwide model of what the future of cities can actually become.”

NXP, together with partners Delphi and Siemens, are demonstrating vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) technology at today’s announcement ceremony at the Douglas Community Center, where reporters, dignitaries and Columbus citizens can see NXP’s RoadLINK V2X technology in action.

Other smart city solutions based on NXP technology and outlined in Columbus’ winning proposal include:

- Smart Card IC technology that enhances transportation for all citizens by supporting secure and convenient public transportation ticketing and payment systems, including contactless transit fare solutions.
- Highly secure NXP Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions designed to promote public safety and convenience. Smart City applications for this NXP technology include vehicle window stickers that enhance driver convenience and reduce municipal costs by eliminating the need for stop-and-pay stations in public parking spaces.

“Columbus’ Smart Cities Competition proposal outlined a clear and inspirational vision: to create a beautiful, healthy, and prosperous community for all of its residents. In fact, this vision is exactly what NXP’s Smart Cities solutions are engineered to accomplish,” said NXP President and CEO Rick Clemmer. “We are proud that NXP’s secure, intelligent traffic management and smart public transport solutions play such a critical role in Columbus’ plans. NXP sincerely congratulates Columbus for winning the Challenge, while also looking forward to working with the other six finalist communities as they implement their own smart city plans in the future.”

For more information about NXP’s technologies and its partners supporting the Smart Cities Challenge, please visit www.nxp.com/smartcities.

About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure 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 secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has 44,000 employees in more than 35 countries and posted revenue of $6.1 billion in 2015. Find out more at www.nxp.com.

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Partnering with the US DOT to Cultivate Smart Governance Developments
The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced an expanded partnership on the Smart City Challenge to now include NXP RFID tagging solutions and smart card ICs. The addition of NXP RFID tagging to the Smart City Challenge will enable automatic vehicle identification and more streamlined traffic and toll payments. The smart card ICs are designed to make eGovernment services easier and more secure.

To date, the NXP contribution to the Smart City Challenge includes vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) technology; long-range, secure and private RFID tagging for automatic vehicle identification and road safety systems; and smart card ICs to enable secure admission to transportation, access control, retail and other municipal services.

Advancing Smart Transportation
NXP today also demonstrated a comprehensive and highly manufacturable autonomous vehicles platform leveraging NXP’s new BlueBox engine, and deploying NXP silicon and software solutions at each ADAS node. The system demonstration incorporates the BlueBox central computing engine, together with radar, lidar, and vision sensing, as well as an onboard secure V2X system – all of which are powered by NXP silicon currently in volume production or sampling to customers now. NXP’s V2X technology is especially valuable to smart cities, because it enables drivers to “see” around corners, and through traffic obstacles such as big trucks ahead, thereby calming traffic and helping to reduce accidents.

Enabling Citizen Engagement with Smart Mobility Solutions
The Company showcased various benefits for combining MIFARE and NFC technology. From plastic cards and key fobs to smartphones, watches, and other wearables. MIFARE is common criteria certified and can offer support for the latest methods of encryption and secure authentication in security critical use cases such as public transport, educations systems, banking and smart retail. The demonstration weaves together applications and consumer touchpoints with MIFARE and NFC in an interconnected smart city.

Driving Development of Natural, Human Interfaces for Smart Machines and Buildings
Opening the door for secure human machine interactions for industrial, medical, automotive or other media intensive applications, NXP released the i.MX 8 multisensory enablement kit (MEK). The powerful i.MX 8 architectures are designed to enable engineers to explore and advance multimedia and display interfaces for everyday interactions.

Accelerating Development of Solutions for Smart Home and Smart Life
NXP released new additions to the Single Chip System Modules (SCM) portfolio—the SCM-i.MX 6SoloX and the V-link bus technology that gives customers additional options for vertical integration, ideal for space constrained and IoT applications. These highly integrated devices reduce customer design cycles, dramatically reduce PCB area, and deliver enhanced capability in a single solution. And the company also introduced a home gateway platform delivering up to 20 Gbps of broadband performance, plus additional on-premise performance headroom to support a wide range of applications that enhance the energy efficiency and comfort of smart homes and smart buildings.

NXP also released various wireless modules to accelerate development of smart home systems including home gateway, smart “end nodes” devices and home appliances. The wireless modules are pre-certified FCC/CE/IC and can be loaded with the latest NXP Zigbee 3.0 stack that enables customers to easily and quickly introduce new wireless products into the market.

Additionally, NXP announced high performance components and integrated modules for solid state RF cooking appliances that enable the future smart kitchen experience.

Spearheading Smart Electronic Payment Developments
Expanding the Company’s support for the smart electronic payments market, NXP introduced a point-of-sale (POS) reader solution platform, SLN-POS-RDR, to enable customers to quickly develop and launch secure, contact and contactless payment systems into the market. The evolving market of electronic payments introduces new, innovative form factors, use cases and integration levels for the latest payment devices. NXP’s proven and certified POS reader solution platform enables developers to jump start their development and focus on innovation beyond the classical barriers to entry.

For more information about NXP in Smart Cities and its partners, please visit www.nxp.com/smartcities.

About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure 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 secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has 45,000 employees in more than 35 countries and posted revenue of $6.1 billion in 2015. Find out more at www.nxp.com.

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KARLSRUHE, Germany, March 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) today, announced the launch of a new contactless development platform specifically designed to champion new and emerging business models for the smart card market - MIFARE® DESFire® EV2.

Offering an improved operating range and security support from NXP’s latest platform, MIFARE DESFire EV1, up to Common Criteria level EAL5+ MIFARE DESFire EV2 is an ideal platform to enable the smart infrastructures of tomorrow. With DESFire EV2 multiple applications, such as public transport ticketing, bike rental, access management, closed-loop payments, membership, loyalty programs and much more, can now be integrated on a single smart card.

The new MIFARE DESFire EV2 platform is fully backwards compatible with existing MIFARE DESFire installations, offering a fast replacement and migration for established providers wanting to upgrade their systems. The new platform will be demonstrated at the IT-Trans Conference and Exhibition, held March 1-3, 2016 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

One of the differentiating features of NXP‘s new MIFARE DESFire EV2 is the ability to seamlessly incorporate and add different applications onto the smart cards once they have been issued and are being used by consumers. In the past, adding new applications to a smart card already in circulation was cumbersome – updates typically required access to the master security key and so cards had to be recalled from the field. Different operating environments also limited the types of applications that could be loaded onto the card resulting in additional complexity when creating apps. Now, with the innovative MIsmartApp and an enhanced key management system developed for MIFARE DESFire EV2, independent system integrators can create a single application for different environments or card systems without the card provider sharing the master security key

“The second evolution of our industry-leading MIFARE DESFire open architecture platform for smart cards offers exceptional performance, state-of-the-art security and privacy as well as enhanced multi- application support to make new business models possible,” said Ulrich Huewels, general manager and senior vice president, secure identification solutions, NXP Semiconductors. “It also enables a significantly enhanced consumer experience. MIFARE has always been known as a fast and convenient contactless ticketing solution. Now consumers can use the same device for other applications such as payments or student ID.”

“NXP’s MIFARE DESFire EV2 allows cities to easily integrate additional services like our bike-sharing service to existing city cards,” said Sebastian Schlebusch, director international business development, nextbike GmbH. “As a provider of complementary mobility services to existing public transport systems we are collaborating closely with public transport authorities around the globe to integrate our services with their well-established public transport networks. Here, the MIFARE DESFire EV2 platform provides us with unprecedented levels of flexibility. It gives us the potential to significantly increase our customer base while offering an innovative and useful service.”

“We have been using MIFARE DESFire and MIFARE DESFire EV1 for more than 10 years and appreciate the continuous evolution of this NXP product family,” said Pascal Roux, innovation manager, Xerox Business Solutions France. “The new features and the enhanced performance and security level of MIFARE DESFire EV2 will enable outstanding fare collection systems.”

The new MIFARE DESFire EV2 development platform also includes the Transaction MAC (TMAC), a verification feature for card transactions. Ideal for contactless systems with multiple operators and /or merchants, the TMAC ensures that all payment claims to the merchant clearing houses are valid and can be processed. The TMAC allows the backend systems to detect forged transactions, a repeat of a valid transaction and unreported transactions.

For more information on MIFARE DESFire EV2 please visit the following websites:
On NXP.com
On MIFARE.net

About MIFARE
MIFARE is NXP´s well-known brand for a wide range of contactless IC products used in more than 40 different applications worldwide. With more than 260 million reader core components and more than 10 billion contactless and dual interface ICs sold, MIFARE products are one of the most proven and reliable interface technologies in the market. MIFARE products comply with the international standard ISO/IEC 14443 and are backward-compatible within the product families. This ensures that the existing infrastructure can be smoothly upgraded to higher security and feature levels, such as payment systems, ticketing solutions, loyalty programs, access management, and parking. To further extend the reach of MIFARE products, the MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group brings MIFARE applications into NFC-enabled mobile devices.

About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure 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 secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has 45,000 employees in more than 35 countries.

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