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NXP teams up with Hawkeye in Chinese automotive radar market

April 26, 2019 by Anna

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced a new strategic collaboration and investment agreement with Hawkeye Technology Co., Ltd, a company at the forefront of the Chinese automotive radar sector.

Hawkeye will bring its 77GHz expertise, a team of engineers and a lab complex within Southeast University in Nanjing, China.

Together, the two companies will form a reference design collaboration that uses top engineering talent at Southeast University and NXP’s longstanding radar expertise, to create NXP-based reference designs for the Chinese automotive market.

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NXP develops new platform to ‘speed up electric vehicle development’

March 12, 2019 by David Edwards

NXP Semiconductors, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive semiconductors, has launched a new automotive power control reference platform for an electric vehicle traction motor inverter.

NXP’s new power inverter reference design platform combines its portfolio of automotive microcontrollers, robust power management system basis chips, and new isolated high-voltage IGBT gate drivers with application-specific system enablement software.

The company says this will help carmakers deliver the next generation of hybrid and electric vehicles with “greater speed and less development risk”. [Read more…] about NXP develops new platform to ‘speed up electric vehicle development’

NXP launches chipset solution for connected vehicle data

March 5, 2019 by Anna

NXP Semiconductors N.V., supplier of automotive semiconductors, has announced a vehicle network processing chipset solution for high-performance service-oriented gateways, which it claims enables automakers to unlock the value of connected vehicle data and offer new services.

The MPC-LS chipset solution combines the NXP automotive MPC5748G microcontroller and enterprise networking LS1043A communications processor to offer the high levels of performance and networking required for service-oriented gateways.

For development, evaluation and demonstrations, the chipset solution is supported by an evaluation board, enablement software and a growing ecosystem.

NXP and JD.com partner to develop internet of things and artificial intelligence in China

May 21, 2018 by Jasmine

NXP Semiconductors has reached a strategic agreement with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to collaborate on the development of internet of things and artificial intelligence solutions, products and services.

The joint effort will leverage and combine JD.com’s expertise and capabilities in e-commerce and data analysis as well as operations in finance, logistics and marketing, with innovative technologies from NXP in the field of security, IoT, AI and edge computing to establish an integrated IoT ecosystem of products, services and operations for the China market and beyond.

In recent years, with the rapid advancement of technology and the growing market demand, the IoT industry has developed rapidly. [Read more…] about NXP and JD.com partner to develop internet of things and artificial intelligence in China

NXP launches ‘world’s first’ scalable, single-chip secure vehicle-to-x platform

October 3, 2017 by David Edwards

NXP Semiconductors, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive semiconductor solutions, has has launched its secure next generation RoadLink vehicle-to-everything communications solution.

The new NXP SAF5400 is the “world’s first automotive qualified, high-performance single-chip DSRC modem”, claims the company.

Its “unique scalable architecture”, new security features, and RF CMOS and software defined radio technologies offer original equipment manufacturers with flexible options for cross-regional secure V2X adoption and field upgradeability, says NXP. [Read more…] about NXP launches ‘world’s first’ scalable, single-chip secure vehicle-to-x platform