Nexperia is a
semiconductor manufacturer
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headquartered in
Nijmegen, the Netherlands.It is a subsidiary of the partially
state-owned Chinese company
Wingtech Technology.
It has
front-end factories in
Hamburg
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, Germany and
Greater Manchester
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, England. It is the former Standard Products business unit of
NXP Semiconductors (previously
Philips
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Semiconductors). The company's product range includes
bipolar transistors
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,
diodes
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A diode ...
,
ESD protection,
TVS diodes,
MOSFETs, and
logic
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devices.
History
Nexperia is spinoff from NXP Semiconductor after its former parent company want to concentrate the business in mixed-signal electronics for security, embedded computing, and connected cars. on June 14, 2016.
It was announced that Nexperia would be
divested
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from NXP to a consortium of Chinese financial investors consisting of Beijing Jianguang Asset Management Co., Ltd ("JAC Capital"), a subsidiary of a Chinese
state-owned investment company and Wise Road Capital LTD ("Wise Road Capital"). The transaction became official on 6 February 2017. JAC Capital and Wise Road Capital focuses on global investments, including investment in R&D, manufacturing and customer service.
Following the transaction, Nexperia became an independent company, and the entire scope of the NXP Standard Products business, including its management team, led by Frans Scheper, and approximately 11,000 NXP employees were transferred to Nexperia.
On October 25, 2018, Nexperia was again sold off to
Wingtech Technology, a partially state-owned Chinese ODM for smartphone companies for $3.6 billion.
Before becoming the company name for the Standards Products business spun-off from NXP, Nexperia was a brand for NXP's media processors range.
In 2021, the company purchased the
Newport Wafer Fab in Wales.
On 17 November 2022, the British government ordered Nexperia to divest 86% of its ownership interest in microchip factory Nexperia Newport Limited (NNL, formerly Newport Wafer Fab) for national security reasons. In December 2022, it was announced Nexperia had engaged
New York law firm,
Akin Gump
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to act on their behalf in their application for a
judicial review
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of the UK government’s decision.
In November 2022, it was announced Nexperia had acquired the
Delft-based manufacturer of
PMIC energy harvesting solutions, Nowi.
References
External links
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Semiconductor companies of the Netherlands
Government-owned companies of China