Samsung put software from NXP Software and SRS Labs in some recent smartphones and tablets.
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Eindhoven, the Netherlands based NXP Semiconductors has been operating for more than 50 years.
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That would mean pressure on the shares of NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), VeriFone (PAY) and others.
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Despite this, NXP sought an injunction to ensure the details of the attack would never be aired.
That has made NXP Semiconductor (NXPI) a stock to watch given NFC design wins over the last several quarters.
One of their bigger hits last years was in NXP Semiconductor (NXPI), a maker of Near-Field Communication semiconductors for mobile devices.
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On October 24, 2012, NXP reported third quarter earnings per share of 70 cents, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 25.0%.
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NXP's product solutions are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.
Together with Intrinsic-ID, NXP will demonstrate PUF technology on a SmartMX2 test chip with Intrinsic ID's SESAMES-award winning SATURNUS secure cloud application.
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Visitors to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 25 - 28) can experience NXP's Trusted Mobile Smart Life Solutions at Hall 7 A111.
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Two beneficiaries of that NFC deployment are NFC chip suppliers NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Inside Secure SA (EPA: INSD), Broadcom (BRCM) and CSR (CSRE).
Other likely candidates for stock tickers: Zipcar (a car rental service), Nielsen (media measurement firm) and NXP Semiconductors, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics.
Another less-than-obvious hardware change is the addition of a feedback amplifier -- possibly something like this chip from NXP -- to the phone's loudspeaker.
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Mobile handset maker Ericsson (nasdaq: ERIC - news - people ) and STM Microelectronics have announced a joint venture that also involves NXP semiconductors.
On February 23, 2010, NXP acquired the 50% stake owned by Sony Corporation (Sony) in Moversa GmbH (Moversa), and merged Moversa with its subsidiary NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH.
Christophe Duverne, a spokesman for NXP, told Reuters that it would take months or years for some users of the chip to adapt their systems to defend against the attack.
While many were initially disappointed that the iPhone 5 did not come with near-field communications (NFC) from the likes of NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), with Passbook Apple has created something rather elegant.
By integrating Intrinsic ID's PUF technology into its secure microcontroller SmartMX2, NXP significantly enhances the chip's security architecture and strengthens applications such as NFC-enabled mobile payment, electronic ticketing, and eGovernment and cyber security services.
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Which brings us to the latest device in NXP's SmartMX2 range -- a piece of technology that is claimed to work very differently and that is expected to hit the market next year.
Additional information can be found by visiting www.nxp.com.
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But NXP has found a way to amplify these flaws in a controlled way and use them for identification, and it'd take a mightily well-equipped criminal (or fare dodger, or Scrabble cheater) to reverse engineer that.
It is possible to find another technology capable of accomplishing the tasks NFC can tackle, "but NFC is the only one that can do them all, " said Jeff Miles, a director at NXP, one of the companies behind NFC.
Last year, Dutch chip-maker NXP released a new type of mobile audio component -- the TFA9887 -- that allowed a mobile device to monitor its speaker system in real-time in order to max out volume without risking damage to the driver.
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