NXP semiconductors' Ashok Chandak on security, smart and IoT

NXP Semiconductors is one of the earliest company which has focused on Internet of things. NXP Semiconductors has designed range of semiconductor ICs targeting smart and secure opportunities in electronics. This writer talked to Ashok Chandak, Senior Director, Global Sales and Marketing, NXP Semiconductors India on some of their latest products and focus. Here are the excerpts: Q:Security looks to be a bigger issue than ever before people are talking about security at chip level, hardware level and also software level, how NXP Semiconductors is looking at all this, where do you see real gaps in the security and how NXP is taking on this attractive market? Ashok chandak: Actually NXP look security as a key requirement, and is going to grow manifold in future, we had a pretty strong lineup portfolio in security domain, not only the chip card level (smartcard, RFID, transactions ID and so forth), if you look at two years ago the brand tagline of NXP brand has already got changed, which we call now "Secure Connections to the Smarter World", that itself is a big change, you can see that whole NXP strategy is a promise of secure connections for smarter world, we see that the world is becoming smarter and everything getting connected, whether it is car, home, appliances, everything. The more you get into everything is connected and everything becomes smarter, security...