According to media reports, Nexperia has opened its first design center in North America and hopes to hire 100 engineers in Dallas, Texas, to support the new power management and analog chip business units.

“Our goal is to be a leading supplier in key semiconductors, which we plan to reach $10 billion by 2030,” said Irene Deng, general manager of the new power and signal conversion business group and company management team.

The new business unit will develop more complex chips with voltage regulators and data converters to complement its discrete power devices. "We are entering the analog IC market because we believe the market will continue to grow and be a part of it with voltage regulators and battery protection," she continued.

She also said that this will not put the company, which is owned by China‘s Wingtech Technology (69.700, 1.12, 1.63%), in conflict with NXP.

"The simulation market is $50 billion and the largest share is no more than 30 percent, so the market is big enough for many players," she said. "We respect where we have a strong portfolio in automotive and industrial, so we‘re going to start with something different, like battery management for handhelds, so I do think it‘s a good partnership with NXP."

"In Dallas, our goal is to hire 100 people over the next two to three years," she said. "We‘ve identified one building that will be refurbished and Dallas will be the headquarters for North American R&D, but we‘re not limited to the rest of the country."

According to the official website, Nexperia, a subsidiary of Wingtech Technology, is the world‘s leading professional manufacturer of discrete devices, logic devices and MOSFET devices. The company became independent in early 2017. Nexperia attaches great importance to efficiency and produces high-volume semiconductor components with reliable and stable performance, producing more than 90 billion semiconductor components with reliable and stable performance every year. The company has a broad product portfolio capable of meeting the stringent standards of the automotive industry. We manufacture in-house industry-leading small packages that combine energy and thermal efficiency with outstanding quality. Built on more than 50 years of expertise, Nexperia has more than 11,000 employees scattered across Asia, Europe and the United States, supporting customers worldwide.

Last year, Nexperia announced that it had completed the signing of the transaction agreement to acquire Newport Wafer Fab (hereinafter referred to as "NWF"). Through this acquisition, Nexperia has acquired 100% ownership of the Welsh semiconductor silicon chip production facility. According to reports, NWF was originally founded in 1982 and was named INMOS at that time. Current monthly production capacity is over 35,000 200mm wafers covering a wide range of semiconductor technologies, including MOSFETs and Trench IGBTs using wafer thinning methods to CMOS, analog and compound semiconductors. Wingtech Technology told Observer.com that the new port factory and the current 200mm wafer investment in Manchester and Hamburg fabs will help Nexperia achieve its ambitious strategic growth goals, enrich IGBT, analog and compound Semiconductor product line. In addition, this acquisition significantly enhances Nexperia‘s automotive-grade product supply capabilities and expands its market share.

This month, Wingtech disclosed that the company‘s wholly-owned subsidiary Nexperia B.V. (hereinafter referred to as Nexperia) set up the China Research Institute in 2021, focusing on the research and development of new products such as high-voltage power devices and analog ICs. At present, the company‘s independent design and development of IGBT series products has been successful, and all parameters have met the design requirements.

The relevant person in charge of the Board Secretary Office of Wingtech Technology said that IGBT is a product with relatively large future development prospects in power semiconductors, and the company has been doing research and development before. Tape-out is a key process node in the product development and production process. Talking about the specific use of Wingtech‘s IGBT, the person in charge said, "One of the products is for automobiles and the other is for photovoltaics, mainly because of these two industries. But if the specific subdivision to municipal level Downstream scenarios are useful in many places."