From early applications in embedded processing, industrial control, and networking, to cloud computing and mobile appliance applications, NXP Semiconductors has provided leading-edge microcontroller and microprocessor solutions. Now with the proliferation of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Industrial-IoT, NXP is utilizing its strengths to provide Intelligent Edge solutions for both applications and network requirements. Product growth in this area has been accelerating across an array of applications such as consumer A/V, smart homes and buildings, industrial and factory automation, commercial, and healthcare systems.  

Although applications are changing and advancing rapidly, NXP understands the need to provide their customers with stable long-term support and to provide migration paths within their product families. To this extent, they have developed a wide range of options including many ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers and ARM Cortex-A microprocessors. Additionally, they developed the necessary partnerships to support long lifecycle applications.  

The NXP product portfolio includes many of their well-established families which range from low-pin count/low-power microcontrollers to high-performance multi-core microprocessors. Within their microcontrollers are brands such as the LPC series, Kinetis, and S32K devices. The microprocessors cover products like the S32x, i.MX, and Layerscape devices. There is also the i.MX RT and i.MX ULP devices to help bridge the gap between the MCU and MPU applications. 

To insure, long-term support in this rapidly changing market, NXP has held a long-standing partnership with Rochester Electronics for over 20 years. Our partnership allows Rochester to provide long-term 100% authorized, traceable, certified, and guaranteed solutions for both active and end-of-life devices. 

To support IoT and intelligent edge processing requirements, Rochester has current inventory in stock on over 12 million MCU and MPU devices covering a selection of over 4000-part number options. This includes 1-million units of ARM 7/ 9/ 11 and Cortex M0/ M3/ M4 microcontrollers in the LPC, Kinetis, and i.MX products families.  For microprocessors, there is coverage for 500,000 units of the i.MX5, i.MX6, i.MX7, and i.MX8 family of ARM Cortex-A series of devices along with 12,000 units of the Layerscape ARM Cortex A53/ A7/ A9 devices along with a large selection of QorIQ® PowerPC® based processors.