{"id":7917,"date":"2022-11-17T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T07:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/17\/british-government-blocks-takeover-of-welsh-semiconductor-producer\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T07:41:54","slug":"british-government-blocks-takeover-of-welsh-semiconductor-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/17\/british-government-blocks-takeover-of-welsh-semiconductor-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"British government blocks takeover of Welsh semiconductor producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIS has \u2018national security\u2019 concerns over China-owned Nexperia which took control of Newport Wafer Fab<\/p>\n<p>The British government has blocked the takeover of the UK\u2019s largest producer of semiconductors by a Chinese-owned manufacturer, citing \u201ca risk to national security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The business department\u2019s decision on Wednesday comes more than a year after semiconductor company Nexperia first announced that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/jul\/05\/chinese-owned-firm-acquires-uks-largest-semiconductor-manufacturer\">taken control of Newport Wafer Fab<\/a> in south Wales in July 2021, in a \u00a363m deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/16\/british-government-blocks-takeover-of-welsh-semiconductor-producer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5764299c4ae8055b5259b11ee61f7fad19586a19\/0_269_7823_4694\/master\/7823.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=891caeb3d099bc260ab0b9825e5e4824\" title=\"British government blocks takeover of Welsh semiconductor producer\" \/>BEIS has \u2018national security\u2019 concerns over China-owned Nexperia which took control of Newport Wafer Fab<br \/>\nThe British government has blocked the takeover of the UK\u2019s largest producer of semiconductors by a Chinese-owned manufacturer, citing \u201ca risk to national security\u201d.<br \/>\nThe business department\u2019s decision on Wednesday comes more than a year after semiconductor company Nexperia first announced that it had taken control of Newport Wafer Fab in south Wales in July 2021, in a \u00a363m deal. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIS has \u2018national security\u2019 concerns over China-owned Nexperia which took control of Newport Wafer Fab The British government has blocked the takeover of the UK\u2019s largest producer of semiconductors by a Chinese-owned manufacturer, citing \u201ca risk to national security\u201d. The business department\u2019s decision on Wednesday comes more than a year after semiconductor company Nexperia first &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/17\/british-government-blocks-takeover-of-welsh-semiconductor-producer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">British government blocks takeover of Welsh semiconductor producer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}