Chipmaker Nexperia’s China subsidiary said on Monday that it has begun producing its own chips. This marks a step towards independence from its Dutch parent, amid a dispute that continues to affect automakers’ supply lines.
Nexperia said on its Chinese social media account that it has started making several types of chips also produced by Nexperia but using 12-inch wafers — a size the Dutch company cannot manufacture in Europe.
Nexperia has been in a dispute with its owner WIngtech as well as the Nexperia China subsidiary since October 2025, after an intervention by the Dutch government aimed at blocking the company from shifting operations to China. While Nexperia produced wafers in Europe and packaged them into chips in China before the intervention, the company later split, with Nexperia China declaring independence and Nexperia Europe halting wafer shipments to China, citing nonpayment.
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Nexperia China said in its statement that it has begun using 12-inch wafers to make products including bipolar discrete devices, Schottky rectifiers and electrostatic discharge devices — all simple chips that Nexperia also makes.
It is not known where the company is sourcing its 12-inch wafers. Wingtech founder Zhang Xuezheng controls Shanghai Dingtai Jiangxin Technology Co., Ltd, or “WingSkySemi,” a 12-inch wafer fab in Shanghai that cooperated with Nexperia before the dispute began.
This comes shortly after China’s commerce ministry on Saturday raised the possibility of another global semiconductor supply chain crisis due to “new conflicts” between Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary.
Beijing’s warning on Saturday came a day after Nexperia’s Chinese packaging arm accused Netherlands-based headquarters of disabling office accounts for all employees in China. “(This has) provoked new conflicts and created new difficulties and obstacles for (company-to-company) negotiations,” China’s commerce ministry said in a statement published on its official website. “Nexperia Netherlands has seriously disrupted the company’s normal production and operation, and if this triggers a global semiconductor production and supply chain crisis again, the Netherlands must bear full responsibility for this,” the ministry added.
In a statement on Friday Nexperia’s Dutch entity did not deny the IT action, but disputed the Chinese subsidiary’s allegation that this had affected production at the company’s assembly and testing facility in China’s Guangdong province.
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Nexperia’s Chinese subsidiary responded to the removal of Wingtech’s control in September by declaring itself independent of its Dutch parent. Both entities have since traded accusations of bad-faith negotiating, while the Dutch headquarters has suspended wafer supply to the Guangdong plant. Efforts from Beijing, The Hague, and Brussels to push both to a mediated resolution did not resolve the issue. Beijing has accused The Hague of not doing enough to force compromise from Nexperia’s Netherlands headquarters, or end court proceedings in Amsterdam that transferred Wingtech’s shares to a Dutch lawyer in October 2025.