Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment

The former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales is getting £250 million ($323 million) to start making silicon carbide semiconductors, a year after the sale of the site was approved by UK government. Britain's largest semiconductor production plant, now officially known as Vishay Newport following acquisition by US …

[Vikingforties]

Hmm

From one ultimate owner within a jurisdiction of honor and trust to another. I like the investment but let's see how this turns out.

[Spazturtle]

Re: Hmm

The best option would have been for the Dutch government to force the Chinese owners of Nexperia to sell it on national security grounds.

[John Smith 19]

So the future is power semiconductors?

Like the selling of Zetex in Oldham (their power management chips are in nearly every mobile phone), formerly Ferranti, to "Diodes Inc."