WESTCODE SEMICONDUCTORS

IXYS UK Westcode Ltd, formerly Westcode Semiconductors, is a world leading semiconductor manufacturing company based in Chippenham, England. We specialise in the design and manufacture of class leading power semiconductors including thyristors, diodes and the revolutionary press-pack IGBT... With origins in the mid 1920's, Westcode Semiconductors began life in London as part of the Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company making copper oxide based semiconductors. Manufacturing started at the Chippenham site in the 1930's and during the next 30 years the company developed products based on selenium and germanium before silicon power devices were introduced in 1957; technology which is still used in products today. Clean rooms and manufacturing were consolidated into the present purpose built facilities in 1998... Since the early part of the 20th Century, the Company has been at the forefront of power semiconductor design. In the early 1920's we introduced the worlds first commercial..

Also known as: Westcode Semiconductors Ltd

Primary location: Chippenham United Kingdom