Nexperia China, the estranged unit of the Dutch chipmaker, is pushing forward with efforts to secure new wafer suppliers in six months, as the firm’s Netherlands head office and mainland Chinese owner Wingtech Technology started direct talks last week.
In its shareholders meeting in Shanghai on Friday, Wingtech said Nexperia China’s plant in Dongguan, in southern Guangdong province, continued to operate amid “a significant gap in wafer supply”, reports from several state-backed media said.
Nexperia’s head office in Nijmegen had suspended further supply of wafers to the Dongguan facility on October 29, following Nexperia China’s refusal of payments for these wafers. According to Wingtech, the Dutch head office “had restricted fund disbursements to Nexperia China”.
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That prompted Nexperia China to start the process of validating domestic wafer suppliers, which “is expected to be completed between the first and second quarters of 2026”, the reports said.
Despite the current wafer shortage, Wingtech claimed that Nexperia China managed to produce and deliver more than 11 billion chips since mid-October to more than 800 clients globally.
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That represented a 14 per cent drop in production, compared with Nexperia’s annual global output, which exceeded 110 billion units before the dispute with the Dutch head office. The Dongguan facility accounted for 70 per cent of the chipmaker’s total output.
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