Vanguard International Semiconductor is considering a second chip plant in Singapore as customers claim the planned capacity of its newly opened facility. The Taiwanese chipmaker, an affiliate of TSMC, inaugurated the plant in Tampines on September 28 through its joint venture with NXP Semiconductors.
The phrase “sold out” refers to production capacity committed to customers, not chips already made. The factory has entered trial production, and commercial volume production is scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. It is expected to reach capacity of about 44,000 12-inch wafers a month by 2029.
The joint venture, VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, completed construction in less than two years. It says its first sample batch achieved yields above 99%, an early manufacturing milestone. The plant is expected to create roughly 1,600 jobs when fully built out.
Its products will include power management, analog and mixed-signal chips, along with interposers used in chip packaging. Those components serve markets ranging from cars and industrial equipment to mobile devices and high-performance computing. Demand tied to AI infrastructure has helped fill the plant’s planned output, according to reporting on the opening.
Vanguard has discussed accelerating a second phase of capacity, but an additional facility remains under consideration. The distinction matters: customers have reserved the first plant’s future output, while the factory still has to ramp production over the next several years. NXP said its planned manufacturing capacity at the joint venture has not changed.
For Singapore, the opening adds a new 300-millimeter wafer facility to its semiconductor industry. For Vanguard, it marks a larger manufacturing foothold outside Taiwan as chipmakers respond to customer demand for more geographically diverse supply.
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