Date: 24 October 2025
Date: 24 October 2025

When the Cathedral’s bells finally fall silent, just move on

When NXP finally shutters its Nijmegen fab, it will mark the end of front-end chipmaking on Dutch soil. Sentiment aside, the closure would be a mere footnote for the Netherlands’ semiconductor sector.
Paul van Gerven

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