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Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Exchange Rates for U.S. Dollars into Euros Applicable for Translation of NXP's Financial Statements | The following table sets out the exchange rates for U.S. dollars into euros applicable for translation of NXP’s financial statements for the periods specified.
|  | $ per € 1 |
|  | period end |  |  | average(1) |  |  | high |  |  | low |
2016 |  |  | 1.0474 |  |  |  | 1.1065 |  |  |  | 1.0474 |  |  |  | 1.1423 |
2015 |  |  | 1.0915 |  |  |  | 1.1150 |  |  |  | 1.0869 |  |  |  | 1.2155 |
2014 |  |  | 1.2155 |  |  |  | 1.3262 |  |  |  | 1.2155 |  |  |  | 1.3857 |
(1) | The average of the noon-buying rate at the end of each fiscal month during the period presented.
Gross Notional Amounts by Currency | The gross notional amounts by currency were as follows:
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |
Euro |  |  | 459 |  |  |  | 4 |
Chinese renminbi |  |  | 45 |  |  |  | (28 | )
Japanese yen |  |  | 35 |  |  |  | 26 |
Malaysian ringgit |  |  | 73 |  |  |  | 60 |
Taiwan dollar |  |  | 94 |  |  |  | 78 |
Thai baht |  |  | 43 |  |  |  | 30 |
Other |  |  | 40 |  |  |  | 43 |
|  |  | 789 |  |  |  | 213 |

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