image courtesy of Getty Images The prime minister’s national security adviser is looking into a Chinese-backed business buying the UK’s largest computer chip facility. Boris Johnson announced that he has invited Sir Stephen Lovegrove to investigate Nexperia’s acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab. “We’re looking into it,” Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs. I’ve requested a review from the national security adviser.” He said that Welsh ministers had requested that the issue be dealt with by UK ministers, but the Welsh government has refuted this. The impact of the semiconductor scarcity on Playstation and Xbox Is it possible for Europe to boost semiconductor production? Nexperia is a Chinese-owned firm with headquarters in the Netherlands and a Manchester office. “We have to decide if the things that they are developing is of actual intellectual property value and importance to China, whether there are real security concerns,” Mr Johnson told Westminster’s Liaison Committee on Wednesday. “I have asked the national security adviser to look at it.” “The Welsh government has not made a request to the UK government to reconsider the takeover of Newport Wafer Fab,” a spokesman for the Welsh government stated. The sale for the Wafer Fab facility helped safeguard its future, as well as semiconductor manufacture in Wales, according to Dr Drew Nelson, the outgoing chairman of Newport Wafer Fab. Newport Wales’ economy is booming. Business in Wales/n
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