EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire - Feb 21, 2013) - NXP Semiconductors N.V ( NASDAQ : NXPI ) today announced that it will be the first company to bring to market smartcard and embedded secure element chips that integrate Intrinsic-ID 's industry-leading PUF (Physically Unclonable Function) technology. PUFs are an innovative way of safeguarding individual chips from data theft by using the unique 'fingerprint' inherent in every semiconductor device to protect its encryption key, making it very hard to clone and thus reverse-engineer and compromise security microcontrollers.