VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has opened a 300mm wafer fab in Tampines, Singapore, built in under two years by a joint venture between TSMC-backed Vanguard International Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductors.
The plant runs 130nm to 40nm processes for mixed-signal, power management, analogue and interposer products, aimed at vehicles, robots, factories and other physical AI systems rather than data centre accelerators.
Its first phase is rated at roughly 44,000 wafers a month, and that capacity is already spoken for. Volume production is targeted for the first quarter of 2027, with full utilisation pulled forward to 2028, a year earlier than the original plan.
Vanguard chairman Leuh Fang said demand climbed faster than the partners modelled, and the company is now weighing a second Singapore fab. TSMC holds 27 percent of Vanguard and licensed the interposer line that will run at the site on 30nm to 40nm technology.
NXP chief executive Rafael Sotomayor said the venture is about giving edge devices a manufacturing base customers can rely on, which he sees as a precondition for physical AI adoption.
The project has created about 1,600 jobs, with more expected as the second phase fills out.
