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February 16th 2009, 14:09PM

NXP Semiconductors has announced it has received $200 million (£140 million) by drawing under its available revolving credit facility.

The firm says the move is to strengthen its liquidity position - in November 2008 it received $400 million under a similar arrangement.

Karl-Henrik Sundstrom, chief financial officer of NXP, comments: "In view of the continuing global financial turmoil we are drawing $200 million under our revolving credit facility.

"This is a proactive financial decision in order to secure availability of this facility in a turbulent financial market environment."

With headquarters in Europe, NXP Semiconductors is a hardware giant, with around 33,500 employees working in 20 countries.

Earlier in the month it was announced that STMicroelectronics had bought NXP's 20 per cent stake in ST-NXP Wireless, completing a merger between Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless.

In January NXP revealed it had won a major contract to supply its SmartMX microcontroller chip to the German transport ticketing network.
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