{"id":124558,"date":"2021-07-03T08:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/uks-largest-chip-plant-to-be-acquired"},"modified":"2021-07-03T08:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T15:24:42","slug":"uks-largest-chip-plant-to-be-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/uks-largest-chip-plant-to-be-acquired","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s largest chip plant to be acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uks-largest-chip-plant-to-be-acquired2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 Newport Wafer Fab, the U.K.\u2019s largest chip producer, is set to be acquired by Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia for around \u00a363 million ($87 million) next week, according to two sources close to the deal who asked to remain anonymous because the information is not yet public.<\/p>\n<p>Nexperia, a Dutch firm that is 100%-owned by China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/745-SZ\" target=\"_blank\">Wingtech Technology<\/a>, told CNBC on Friday that the deal talks are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Newport, South Wales, privately-held NWF\u2019s chip plant dates back to 1982 and it is one of just a handful of semiconductor fabricators in the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013 Newport Wafer Fab, the U.K.\u2019s largest chip producer, is set to be acquired by Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia for around \u00a363 million ($87 million) next week, according to two sources close to the deal who asked to remain anonymous because the information is not yet public. Nexperia, a Dutch firm that is 100%-owned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}