Vishay Intertechnology

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and included in the Fortune 1000 list of US-based company, is among the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors (diodes, rectifiers, transistors, optoelectronic components and selected ICs) and passive electronic components ( resistors, capacitors, inductors, sensors, and transducers ). These components are used in electronic devices and equipment of almost every kind. The company is present in the industrial and consumer electronics and computer, automotive, communications, military, aerospace and medical industries.

Vishay was founded in 1962 by Felix Zandman and is headquartered in Malvern (Pennsylvania), USA.

Vishay has production plants in 17 countries and employs 27,500 employees. The German sites are Selb (formerly Draloric ), Heide ( formerly Beyschlag ), Heilbronn (formerly Temic Telefunken ), Landshut (formerly Roeder stone) and Itzehoe (formerly Siliconix ). This Vishay has approximately 1900 employees in Germany. The Selb location is also the European headquarters of the Group.

Sales by Vishay in 2007 was approximately 2.8 billion U.S. dollars.

Vishay brands and acquisitions

Companies and brands that belong to Vishay, with the year of acquisition:

  • Alma Components ( 1989)
  • Angstrom
  • Aztronic
  • BCcomponents (2002)
  • Beyschlag (2002)
  • BLH (2002)
  • Bradford
  • Celtron (2002)
  • Cera -Mite (2000)
  • Dale ACI (UK)
  • Dale (1985)
  • Draloric (1987 )
  • Electro- film ( 2000)
  • E -Sil
  • ESTA (1993 )
  • General Semiconductor (2001)
  • Lite-On Power Semiconductor ( a joint venture with Lite-On 1997, now sold again)
  • Man Components ( 1983)
  • Roeder 's Stone ( 1993)
  • Sensor Tronics (2002)
  • Sfernice (1988 )
  • Siliconix (1998)
  • SI Technologies (2005)
  • Spectrol (2000)
  • Sprague (1992)
  • Tedea - Huntleigh (2002)
  • Telefunken (1998)
  • Vitramon (1994 )

Vishay also holds many product rights and production licenses for older products from other manufacturers. So, for example, Vishay 2007 bought a majority of the products in the field of wired power semiconductor by International Rectifier.

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