Qualcomm says the European Commission (EC) and the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), have authorised the acquisition of NXP Semiconductors by Qualcomm River Holdings, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm.
The acquisition has now received eight of the nine approvals around the world, with China remaining.
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Qualcomm cooperated with the EC and the KFTC and agreed to all conditions required by the agencies to obtain their authorisation.
Qualcomm committed to exclude certain near-field communication (NFC) patents from the proposed transaction and ensure NXP licences those patents to third parties. Qualcomm also committed not to assert the NFC patents it will acquire from NXP and maintain interoperability between Qualcomm’s baseband chipsets and NXP’s NFC chips and rivals baseband chipsets and NFC chips.
Qualcomm also will continue to offer a licence to MIFARE on terms commensurate with those offered by NXP.
“We are pleased both the EC and the Korean Fair Trade Commission have granted authorisation of the NXP acquisition and we are optimistic China will expeditiously grant its clearance,” said Qualcomm CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.
“Acquiring NXP is complementary to Qualcomm’s global portfolio, providing tremendous scale in automotive, IoT, security and networking and will greatly accelerate our ability to execute and create value in new and adjacent opportunities.”
