Vishay Intertechnology
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. is an American manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components founded by Polish-born businessman Felix Zandman. Vishay has manufacturing plants in Israel, Asia, Europe, and the Americas where it produces rectifiers, diodes, MOSFETs, optoelectronics, selected integrated circuits, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Vishay Intertechnology revenues for 2023 were $3.4 billion.[1] At the end of 2023, Vishay had approximately 23,500 full-time employees.[1]
Company type
1962
Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Marc Zandman, Executive Chairman, Chief Business Development Officer,
Joel Smejkal, President and CEO
rectifiers, diodes, MOSFETs, optoelectronics, selected integrated circuits, resistors, capacitors, inductors
US$3.40 billion (2023)
US$486 million (2023)
US$324 million (2023)
US$4.24 billion (2023)
US$2.20 billion (2023)
c. 23,500 (2023)
Vishay is one of the world's foremost manufacturers of power MOSFETs.[2] They have a wide range of power electronic applications, including portable information appliances, internet communications infrastructure, power integrated circuits, cell phones, and notebook computers.[3]
Acquisitions[edit]
Some of the manufacturers that Vishay has acquired include HiRel Systems (2012), the resistor business of Huntington Electric (2011), the wet tantalum capacitor business of KEMET (2008), the PCS business of International Rectifier (2007), BCcomponents (Beyschlag Centralab components, which was previously part of Philips Electronics Components) (2002),[8] General Semiconductor, the infrared components business of Infineon, Mallory (NACC), and Tansitor (2001), Cera-Mite, Electro-Films, and Spectrol (2000), Siliconix and Telefunken (1998), Vitramon (1994), Roederstein (1993), Sprague (1992), Sfernice (1988), Draloric (1987), and Dale (1985).[9]
Vishay agreed to purchase the Inmos microprocessor factory from Nexperia for $177 million in November 2023.[10] In March 2024, the UK government approved the acquisition, as announced by Secretary of State Oliver Dowden.[11][12][13]