Foreign media: China's subsidiary of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia has announced a full transition of its product lines to domestic 12-inch silicon wafer manufacturing, pursuing "independent operations" and "100% localization."
Previously, due to disputes between the Dutch headquarters and parent company WenZhan Technology, China's operations had been cut off from European wafer supplies for about one year. The new supplier is an unnamed "strategic Chinese partner." A 12-inch wafer has an area approximately four times that of a 6-inch wafer and 2.25 times that of an 8-inch wafer, enabling significant cost reductions.
The company has already achieved small-scale production of bipolar discrete devices in March and now plans to migrate all products—including diodes, MOSFETs, and logic ICs—onto the 12-inch production lines.
About 70% of Nexperia's global output is completed in China through packaging, previously relying on wafers supplied from factories in Germany and the UK.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1874417575476236/
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