ST-NXP Wireless was a joint venture made up of the wireless operations of

STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics Naamloze vennootschap, NV (commonly referred to as ST or STMicro) is a European multinational corporation, multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the largest of such companies in Europe. ...

and

NXP Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing and design company with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is the third largest European semiconductor company by market capitalization as of 2024. The company employs approx ...

, existing between 2008 and 2009. Formerly a division of the semiconductor firm Royal Philips Electronics, NXP was established as an independent company in 2006. STMicroelectronics was formed in June 1987 by the merger of semiconductor companies SGS Microelettronica of Italy and Thomson Semiconductors, the semiconductor arm of France's Thomson. In April 2008, NXP and STMicroelectronics announced a merger of their wireless chip divisions, to create a joint-venture called ST-NXP Wireless. The merger was intended to combine their wireless operations in 2G, 2.5G, 3G, multimedia, connectivity and future wireless technologies, with both businesses contributing significant portfolios of communication and multimedia patents. In August 2008, another 50/50 joint-venture was formed between ST-NXP Wireless and

Ericsson (), commonly known as Ericsson (), is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Ericsson has been a major contributor to the development of the telecommunications industry and is one ...

, and in February 2009, STMicroelectronics purchased NXP's stake in the ST-NXP joint venture, resulting in the formation of

ST-Ericsson ST-Ericsson was a multinational manufacturer of wireless products and semiconductors, supplying to mobile device manufacturers. ST-Ericsson was a 50/50 joint venture of Ericsson and STMicroelectronics established on 3 February 2009 and dissolved ...

Products

Being intentionally mobile-focused, key products of ST-NXP included the

Nomadik Nomadik is a family of microprocessors for multimedia applications from STMicroelectronics, and later ST-NXP Wireless. It was originally based on the ARM9 (and later ARM11) ARM architecture(s), and was designed specifically for use in mobile device ...

smartphone SoC platform, which was inherited from STMicroelectronics in the merger. For example, the

STn8820 was announced in February 2008, and featured an

ARM11 ARM11 is a group of 32-bit reduced instruction set computer, RISC ARM architecture, ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings. The ARM11 core family consists of ARM1136J(F)-S, ARM1156T2(F)-S, ARM1176JZ(F)-S, and ARM11MPCore. Since ARM11 cor ...

processor, combined with an ATI

Imageon Imageon (previously ATI Imageon) was a series of media coprocessors and mobile chipsets produced by ATI (later AMD) in 2002–2008, providing graphics acceleration and other multimedia features for handheld devices such as mobile phones and Pers ...

Z460 3D graphics accelerator. However, no products are known to have ever used this processor, and the

name was later retired, with future SoC processors from

launching instead under the

NovaThor NovaThor was a platform consisting of integrated System-on-chip, System on Chips (SoC) and modems for smartphones and tablets developed by ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture of Ericsson and STMicroelectronics established on February 3, 2009. ST-Eri ...

brand.

References

{{Reflist Former joint ventures Telecommunications companies established in 2008 Telecommunications companies disestablished in 2009

Products

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