Overview
- Nexperia’s China units accused the Dutch-based leadership of “maliciously sabotaging” operations by suspending wafer supplies and failing to provide agreed funding, heightening tensions before planned talks in Beijing next week.
- Nexperia said it has not halted wafer shipments altogether and is offering alternative supply chain options, asserting its China arm holds enough wafers and finished goods to operate for several months.
- Large customers are negotiating a workaround to buy wafers directly from Nexperia’s Hamburg plant and separately contract the Dongguan facility for packaging to ease immediate shortages, sources told Reuters.
- China recently relaxed export controls on chips from Nexperia’s Dongguan plant, providing limited relief to automakers even as disrupted Europe-to-China wafer flows continue to constrain output.
- The Dutch government’s late-September supervisory move and the subsequent internal rift have left parts of Dongguan’s lines idled and pushed a Dutch delegation to seek a diplomatic fix in Beijing next week.