The sentence sounds wrong, even to laypeople. “In Hamburg we manufacture almost 10 percent of all chips worldwide,” says Achim Kempe, CEO of Nexperia. Locations such as Munich and Dresden or cities in Asia seem to be more appropriate. Also company names like Infineon or Bosch, Intel or TSMC – but Nexperia in Hamburg? In fact, more than 100 billion products come from the Hamburg chip factory every year, but they are very small. Up to 500,000 of these electronic semiconductor components fit on a single wafer disk with a diameter of 20 centimeters. They are tiny, sometimes barely visible elements whose job it is to control electricity in electronic devices like a switch.
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