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to the long term and wants to bring stability. As a company with more than 60 years’ experience in manufacturing, it believes the workforce in Newport has the skills and commitment to ensure a bright future. Vishay Newport is one of the few semiconductor plants with the potential to grow. Working in partnership with the Welsh and UK Governments, Vishay wants to expand the site to enable new research and development and bring new technologies to market such as compound semiconductor power conversion; a more efficient technology than silicon-based semiconductors.
With a long-term expansion, which could unlock hundreds of millions of pounds of investment, Vishay Newport has the potential to help the semiconductor cluster develop as a global center of excellence. Vishay recently welcomed the Chancellor of the Exchequer to visit the plant, where a £ 250 million investment into compound semiconductor production was announced 162