The new owner of NXP semiconductor within seven years of love will never change

According to senior vice president of NXP Semiconductors Marc de Jong NXP Semiconductors, recently became the new owner of private equity investors, was acquired in a typical semiconductor mid cycle NXP Semiconductors, and promised to hold its stake in NXP for seven years time.

Marc de Jong or NXP business manager. He said that the new owner of NXP - Kravis Roberts by Kohlberg & Co. (KKR), a consortium of Silver Lake Partners, Bain Capital, Apax and AlpInvest Partners, "love of the semiconductor industry, and the recent five years PHILPS (Philips Electronics) to the semiconductor industry's attitude is not so."

When NXP is sold, people feel that private Holdings Company and NXP's original parent company Royal Philips Electronics, will be more interested in profit margins, and lack of patience for long-term investment. Royal PHILPS Electronics (Royal Philips Electronics) still holds a stake in NXP19.9%.

De Jong the opposite is true. "The new owners are well aware of the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry, and they are unlikely to sell it unless they feel that the semiconductor industry has reached its peak." He also hinted that private Holdings Company for the purchase price of NXP has a very high market premium, $8 billion 300 million bid is much higher than previously expected market."

He said that the new owner believes that investment in R & D and production capacity is essential, and urged the management to focus on acquisitions in order to develop business in the current weak areas of NXP. De Jong said that the investment in advanced processing technology is in the affirmative, and the day before he mentioned several times in the work of Crolles.

Crolles 2 is a coalition of STMicroelectronics, PHILPS and Freescale Semiconductor was founded in 2002 in France, Carle Crolles, is a joint research and industrialization of CMOS Technology: from the beginning of the 90 nm node, will eventually reach 32 nm. De Jong is reluctant to comment on NXP's strategy for the alliance in the future.

NXP CEO Frans van Houten said in an interview: "we are currently evaluating the Crolles 2 alliance." He said that the continuation of the alliance, "we need to make decisions before the end of the year".

However, De Jong also stressed that the new management also need to face the other difficult decisions, to ensure that the focus on the company in the mobile phone platform, near field communication, automobile and home entertainment and entertainment network growth field advantage.