 Both elements have deep roots stretching back to when they were part of Philips NV (in the case of NXP), and Motorola (Freescale).Each had comparable revenue figures; US$4.8B and US$4.2B for NXP and Freescale respectively in 2013.NXP primarily focuses on near field communication (NFC) and high-performance mixed signal (HPMS) hardware.