Vishay is a US headquartered company that was established over six decades ago in 1962, and now employs around 24,000 people. We manufacture a wide range of semiconductors in factories including in Germany, France, and the US, and now in Newport, South Wales.
Our founder, Dr Felix Zandman, was a holocaust survivor who spent his childhood in a Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland (now Belarus). His inventiveness helped create one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic components.
We are the technology behind many of the brands you will know well. Our components are in the cars you drive, the smartphones you hold, the wind turbines powering the grid. We are trusted to deliver when it matters most: our technology helped power the Mars Rover and keeps advanced fighter jets one step ahead of the enemy.
During the pandemic, we worked with a manufacturer of hospital ventilators who had to stop production when one of their suppliers closed. We redesigned a resistor within just three weeks, so they could restart production, helping save the lives of Covid-19 patients.
Most of our products are in power conversion – converting energy from the grid to charge electronics, that could be the laptop you are using, or making it easier and quicker to charge up an electric car. Our technology is also supporting the roll out of the 5G network.
Although every country and location is different, our factory near Hamburg in Germany has some similarities to Newport. It works in similar technologies, is a similar size, and was at risk of closure when we acquired it in 1996. Since then, we have secured the future of the site which employs around 500 people, including supplying to the automotive industry. Last year we announced an investment of €300 million to expand chip production, by building a new wafer fab next to the existing site, which will create 150 new jobs in the first phase of expansion. Long term, we think Newport has the potential to expand and create new high skilled, well paid manufacturing jobs.
About Vishay
Vishay manufactures one of the world’s largest portfolios of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components that are essential to innovative designs in the automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Serving customers worldwide, Vishay is The DNA of tech®. Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. is a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH). More on Vishay at www.Vishay.com.
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