Vishay Newport
A New Start for Newport Wafer Fab
History of Newport Wafer Fab
Newport Wafer Fab has had eight different owners since it was built, Vishay wants to bring stability and certainty to the Fab, with investments over the coming two decades as a minimum. As a company with sixty years’ experience in manufacturing across the world, with similar factories in Europe, we want to reassure workers and the community of our long-term commitment to the Fab.
Timeline
Inmos, a British semiconductor company, commissions a microprocessor manufacturing facility in Newport. It is designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, his first building in Wales.
Inmos is acquired by Thorn EMI, a British company created after the merger of Thorn Electrical Industries and the EMI music group.
Thorn EMI sold Inmos to SGS Thomson Microelectronics, a French-Italian conglomerate.
A management buyout takes over the factory, which is renamed European Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited.
The factory is sold to International Rectifier, an American power management technology company.
International Rectifier and the factory becomes part of Infineon Technologies.
Infineon sells the factory to Neptune 6 and the site becomes known as ‘Newport Wafer Fab’.
The fab is sold to Nexperia, a Chinese owned company, headquartered in the Netherlands.
The UK Government orders Nexperia to sell its stake for national security reasons.
Vishay, a US headquartered manufacturer, agrees to buy Nexperia’s stake in Newport Wafer Fab, signalling a new start and new investment in the fab.
2030 onwards – Vishay is committed to Newport Wafer Fab for the long term. We see investment in a minimum of twenty year cycles. By investing in the production of new technologies, we believe Newport Wafer Fab has the potential to bring significant benefits to the wider economy in Newport and Wales.
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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