"Kinetis" is a brand name, currently owned by NXP, for a broad range of microcontrollers that are based on various different Arm Cortex-M cores.
"Kinetis" is a brand name, currently owned by nxp semiconductors, for a broad range of microcontrollers that are based on various different arm cortex-m cores.
The Kinetis brand was created by freescale semiconductors, which was acquired by NXP in 2015.