The IP sale notice suggests that this is a jobbing contract for non-competing products.
I was wondering who the customer was. One possibility is Newport Wafer Fab.
Newport Wafer Fab makes GaN coated wafers for HV automotive applications (200nm - 650v). This would be part of the power drive control.
The company was bought by
UK made: 650V 200mm GaN foundry process for automotive in Wales (electronicsweekly.com)
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/n...gan-foundry-process-automotive-wales-2021-02/
20210204
The UK government is backing the Compound Semiconductor Centre and Newport Wafer Fab to develop a 200mm Gallium Nitride power transistor foundry process.
Recently taken over by Vishay:
Vishay completes acquisition of Nexperia’s Newport Wafer Fab following UK Government approval (semiconductor-today.com)
https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2024/mar/vishay-060324.shtml
6 March 2024
Located on 28 acres and with the capacity to produce more than 30,000 200mm-diameter wafers per month, the automotive-certified facility is the UK’s largest semiconductor fab, with a long history of supplying components to the automotive and industrial markets. Vishay aims to position the facility as a “manufacturing excellence center focusing on net-zero transformation of decarbonization and electrification”. As a new member of the Compound Semiconductor Cluster in South Wales, Vishay plans to collaborate with local universities and others in the UK to enhance its R&D on power compound semiconductors.
I was wondering who the customer was. One possibility is Newport Wafer Fab.
Newport Wafer Fab makes GaN coated wafers for HV automotive applications (200nm - 650v). This would be part of the power drive control.
The company was bought by
UK made: 650V 200mm GaN foundry process for automotive in Wales (electronicsweekly.com)
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/n...gan-foundry-process-automotive-wales-2021-02/
20210204
UK made: 650V 200mm GaN foundry process for automotive in Wales
The UK government is backing the Compound Semiconductor Centre and Newport Wafer Fab to develop a 200mm Gallium Nitride power transistor foundry process.
Recently taken over by Vishay:
Vishay completes acquisition of Nexperia’s Newport Wafer Fab following UK Government approval (semiconductor-today.com)
https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2024/mar/vishay-060324.shtml
6 March 2024
Vishay completes acquisition of Nexperia’s Newport Wafer Fab following UK Government approval
Discrete semiconductor and passive electronic component maker Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has completed its acquisition of the wafer fabrication facility and operations in Newport, South Wales, UK of Netherlands-based Nexperia B.V. for about $177m in cash on hand (net of cash acquired).Located on 28 acres and with the capacity to produce more than 30,000 200mm-diameter wafers per month, the automotive-certified facility is the UK’s largest semiconductor fab, with a long history of supplying components to the automotive and industrial markets. Vishay aims to position the facility as a “manufacturing excellence center focusing on net-zero transformation of decarbonization and electrification”. As a new member of the Compound Semiconductor Cluster in South Wales, Vishay plans to collaborate with local universities and others in the UK to enhance its R&D on power compound semiconductors.
