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 Vishay Semiconductor
"Vishay is the world's number-one manufacturer of low-power MOSFETs."
Vishay Intertechnology was founded in 1962 by Dr. Felix Zandman, with the financial support of Alfred P. Slaner. The Company was named after the village in Lithuania where relatives of Dr. Zandman and Mr. Slaner had perished during the Holocaust. The Company began operations with one technology that had two product lines: foil resistors and foil resistance strain gages. In 1985, having grown from a start-up into the world's leading manufacturer of these original products, the Company began an ongoing series of strategic acquisitions to become a broad-line manufacturer of electronic components. Today, Vishay Intertechnology is one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components.
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As Vishay Intertechnology grew through innovations and acquisitions, its resistive foil technology products (mostly strain-gage transducers) became non-core businesses in terms of R&D, marketing, and sales. In July 2010, Vishay Intertechnology completed the spin-off of these non-core businesses into an independent company listed on the New York Stock Exchange: Vishay Precision Group. Vishay Intertechnology is now a "pure-play" electronic components Company.
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Vishay Intertechnology's acquisitions include such top names as Siliconix, Telefunken, the infrared components business of Infineon, General Semiconductor, Dale, Draloric, Sprague, Vitramon, and BCcomponents (former passive components businesses of Philips Electronics and Beyschlag). In 2007, Vishay Intertechnology acquired selected discrete semiconductor and module product lines from International Rectifier®. Subsequent acquisitions include a specialty tantalum capacitor product line from KEMET.
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Vishay Intertechnology components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computer, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, power supplies, and medical markets. Vishay Intertechnology's global footprint includes manufacturing facilities in China and four other Asian countries, Israel, Europe, and the Americas, as well as sales offices around the world.
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* Note that IRTronix is franchised with Vishay on the formal International Rectifier PCS Business line.
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