NXP Working on 10 NFC tablets and 90 NFC phones

NXP Working on 10 NFC tablets and 90 NFC phones

If ever there was any doubt that NFC tablets were heading our way NXP squashed that misconception at 4G World a couple of weeks ago as Jeff Miles Vice President Mobile Transactions Worldwide at NXP announced that NXP was currently working on over 100 NFC devices that was made up of 10 NFC tablets and around 90 NFC phones. We have some video of this announcement we will put up on the  site within the next week or so. However, this shows that tablet manufacturers are starting to see NFC as a must-have feature to be competitive.

Quad-core NFC tablets in the near future?

We have already seen the first rumors of quad-core NFC phones. Whereas there is no word yet as to when these NFC tablets may hit the market, these announcements – like the  Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, which features a quad-core processor at an iPad busting low price – tell us we can probably expect some great NFC tablets coming down the pipe within the next few months.

Many NFC tablets so far have been aimed at retailers, although we think there is a growing market and use for consumer based NFC tablets with NFC services outside of payments set to explode within the next few months. Here at NFC Rumors, we are aware of more than 50 unannounced projects that are due to hit the market by the end of quarter one 2012 and many will feature tablet friendly uses.

NXP aren’t the only semiconductor NFC player in town, so if they are working on 10 NFC tablets and 90 NFC phones we can expect more from the likes of Qualcomm, Broadcom and Inside Secure. With the amount of NFC phones already available and another 90 in the works over at NXP Semiconductors, we bet we will be swimming in NFC phones by mid next year. What we want to know is if one of those NFC tablets is an NFC iPad. What will be interesting to see is how that NFC tablet figure climbs over at NXP over the next few months.