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In March 2024, Vishay acquired Newport Wafer Fab, the UK’ s biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility. Working closely with the local community, this will bolster the semiconductor industry in South Wales by securing and increasing the number of well-paid, skilled jobs at Newport Wafer Fab.

Although every country and location are different, the Vishay factory near Hamburg in Germany has some similarities to Newport. It works in similar technologies, is a similar size, and was at risk of closure when it was acquired in 1996. Since then, Vishay has secured the future of the site

which employs around 500 people and supplies to the automotive industry.

Vishay’ s founder, Dr Felix Zandman, was a holocaust survivor who spent his childhood in a Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, now Belarus. His inventiveness helped create one of the world’ s largest manufacturers of electronic components. The Vishay journey began with a revolutionary technology. From there, the company grew over the decades to become one of the world’ s most trusted manufacturers of electronic components. From discrete semiconductors to passive components, from the smallest diode to the most powerful capacitor, Vishay’ s breadth of products is the very foundation that brings modern technology to life, every day, for everyone. The company calls it The DNA of tech ®.

This DNA is more than infrastructure for today’ s most vital electronic products; it’ s a platform to enable growth. Vishay is well-positioned to propel such timely

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