Telefunken Semiconductors
| Telefunken Semiconductors | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 2009 |
| resolution | 2015 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Heilbronn |
| Number of employees | approx. 135 (August 2014) |
| Branch | Semiconductor industry |
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Telefunken Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG i. I. was a German company from Heilbronn .
history
In 1959, the Berlin company Telefunken built a semiconductor factory on Theresienwiese in Heilbronn , which began production in April 1960. After a few extensions, around 2500 people worked at this location at the beginning of the 1970s. After the AEG-Telefunken group was dissolved, most of the Heilbronn locations were initially integrated into the new DASA group and later sold to the US company Atmel .
The areas of terrestrial solar cells and infrared night vision devices remained after the dissolution of the AEG-Telefunken group in AEG and were sold later. The Nuremberg-based company Diehl , which is also active in the armaments industry, took over the night vision devices division . This area became independent in 1996 with around 190 employees. Today it is called AIM Infrared-Module GmbH and has around 320 employees at the Heilbronn and Ulm locations .
Atmel outsourced the production of wafers with around 260 employees and sold them in 2009 to the Bristol- registered Tejas Silicon Holdings (TSK UK) owned by the American Subbarao Pinamaneni. This company had only been founded a year earlier. A three-year supply contract was concluded between the two companies. The Heilbronn factory came to Tejas Silicon Germany GmbH & Co KG, which acquired the rights to the Telefunken name on January 1, 2009. The investment company Wafra is involved in the joint holding company of the Heilbronn and Californian locations in Roseville (formerly Renesas). At the end of April 2013, the company filed for bankruptcy , affecting 300 employees in Heilbronn and 20 developers in Hanover. According to a report by Heilbronner Voice , the bankruptcy application did not come as a surprise, as Telefunken Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG had been struggling with liquidity problems since it was founded. This article also reported that Pinamaneni was fired by its American parent company (Tejas Inc.) in May 2012 for moving more than $ 20 million to Heilbronn to avert bankruptcy there. According to media reports, 97 out of 300 employees should be laid off by October 2013. On December 4, 2013, Johnny Ng, an investor from the USA with roots in Hong Kong, was found who wanted to continue operations with 135 employees under the new name Power-Gate . In August 2014, however, Telefunken Semiconductors filed for insolvency again. After the insolvency administrator was unable to find an investor to continue the company, operations ceased on the last working day on February 27, 2015.
Products
From Telefunken Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG i. I. Integrated circuits ( CMOS ICs) were manufactured for automotive suppliers and companies in the end-user sector.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Telefunken Semiconductors files for bankruptcy. In: Heilbronn voice. August 18, 2014, accessed August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Key Figures. Homepage AIM Infrared Module GmbH; Retrieved May 13, 2013
- ↑ Company Overview of Tejas Silicon Holdings (UK) Limited in Bloomberg Businessweek; Retrieved May 12, 2013
- ↑ Heilbronn's Atmel chip factory now belongs to Tejas Silicon Holdings . Heise online on January 5th, 2009; Retrieved May 12, 2013
- ↑ Internet presence of TSI Semiconductors LLC ( Memento of the original of July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ New perspectives for Telefunken . Online edition of the Heilbronn voice , April 21, 2011
- ↑ Telefunken Semiconductors is looking for an investor. In: Heilbronn voice. April 27, 2013, accessed May 13, 2013 .
- ↑ 97 Telefunken employees have to go . Online edition of the Heilbronn voice, July 26, 2013
- ↑ Manfred Stockburger: New start as a power gate . In: Heilbronn voice . 5th December 2013.
- ↑ Telefunken Semiconductors Heilbronn: The lights are out forever . swr.de, February 27, 2015
