By Reuters | Updated: March 09, 2026
BEIJING, March 9 (Reuters) – Dutch chipmaker Nexperia’s Chinese subsidiary on Monday said it has successfully achieved small-batch production of 12-inch wafer bipolar discrete devices, even as disputes between the Chinese unit and the Dutch headquarters drag on.
The “breakthrough” marked a new milestone in Nexperia China’s “independent R&D and mass production capabilities”, the company said in a statement released on its Chinese social media account.
Netherlands-based Nexperia, owned by China’s Wingtech Technology (600745.SS), has been embroiled in geopolitical tensions following Dutch state intervention in October 2025 that imposed a European management team.
(This story has been corrected to fix the date of Dutch state intervention to October 2025, from 2022, in paragraph 3)
Reporting by Xiuhao Chen and Ryan Woo; Editing by Jan Harvey
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