BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) – Dutch chipmaker Nexperia’s Chinese subsidiary said on Friday most of the company’s operations in China have resumed after being “significantly” disrupted following Nexperia’s mass disabling of office accounts for all employees in the country.
Certain production processes, such as “SAP order-to-production process for customer-supplied wafers” were interrupted and the company has initiated an emergency response plan, Nexperia China said in a statement posted on its WeChat account.
The accounts were disabled on the evening of March 3, which prevented employees in China from accessing company software, it added.
“Currently, most business operations have resumed, ensuring basic production operations are maintained. We are making every effort to minimise potential impacts on future production and delivery,” it said.
Nexperia in the Netherlands did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Netherlands-based Nexperia, a unit of China’s Wingtech, has been at the centre of tensions between Europe and China since a Dutch state intervention last year installed a European management team.
The move triggered a crisis that disrupted global supplies of basic chips for the car industry and Nexperia’s Chinese unit later declared itself independent of the company’s European management.
(Reporting by Ethan Wang and Colleen Howe; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
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