NXP announces pricing of its IPO

NEW YORK, USA: NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced that its initial public offering of 34,000,000 shares of common stock will be priced at $14 per share. The shares are scheduled to begin trading tomorrow, August 6, 2010, on the NASDAQ Global
Select Market under the ticker symbol “NXPI.”

The offering’s underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase up to 5,100,000 additional shares of common stock at the initial public offering price. The bookrunners for the offering (in alphabetical order) are: Barclays Capital, BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This offering is being made solely by means of a prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., BofA Merrill Lynch and Barclays Capital Inc.

European economic area
This document does not constitute an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to purchase any common stock in the European Economic Area. In relation to each member state of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive, as defined below (each, a “Relevant Member State”), with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant Implementation Date”), the offering of common stock will not be made to the public in that Relevant Member State, except, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date:
(i) to qualified investors (as defined in the Prospectus Directive or implementing legislation in the Relevant Member State) (“Qualified Investors”);
(ii) to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons (other than Qualified Investors); or
(iii) in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by NXP of a prospectus pursuant to

Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive
For the purposes of this provision and when used elsewhere in this announcement, the expression an “offer of common stock to the public”, or any similar expression, in relation to any common stock in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offering and the common stock to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the common stock, as the same may be varied in the Relevant Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Relevant Member State.

The expression “Prospectus Directive” when used in this announcement means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.