Date: 03/01/2009

Richard L. Clemmer is appointed as President and CEO of NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors announced the appointment of Richard L. Clemmer as President and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"). Mr. Clemmer succeeds Frans van Houten who is leaving NXP. Clemmer will assume the new role on January 1, 2009.

Sir Peter Bonfield, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NXP, said: "I am pleased to welcome Richard Clemmer as the new CEO. Rick has extensive executive leadership experience in the high tech industry, including semiconductor, storage, e-Commerce, and software companies. He is very familiar with NXP and well suited to bring NXP to the next level."

Mr. Clemmer, 56, currently a member of NXP's Supervisory Board, was most recently chief executive officer of Agere Systems, the former semiconductor company of Lucent and a global leader in semiconductors. At Agere he implemented a strategic and operational turnaround that ultimately resulted in an $8 billion merger of equals with LSI.

Prior to Agere, he served as chief financial officer of Quantum Corporation where he led the implementation of the first Silicon Valley tracking stock and the $2 billion merger with Maxtor Corporation. Prior to Quantum, Clemmer spent 23 years at Texas Instruments where he worked as chief financial officer of the Semiconductor Group, and in various leadership positions.