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Vishay has a diverse portfolio of semiconductor and passive components, including diodes, MOSFETs, optoelectronic products, selected integrated circuits (ICs), resistors, inductors, and capacitors. This enables Vishay to provide “one-stop shop” service and offer many different parts for each customer design. Vishay’s innovations in technology, successful acquisition strategy, superior product quality, and “one-stop shop” service to customers have made the Company a global industry leader.

Growth Through Innovation and Acquisition

Vishay was founded in 1962 to manufacture and market foil resistors, an invention of physicist Dr. Felix Zandman, Chairman of the Board and founder. The Company began operations with foil resistors and strain gages as its initial product offerings. In 1985, having grown from a start-up into the world's leading manufacturer of these original products, Vishay began an ongoing series of strategic acquisitions to become a broad-line manufacturer of electronic components that provides "one-stop shop" service to customers. Today, Vishay is one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components.

Vishay's acquisitions include such top names as Siliconix, Telefunken, the infrared component business of Infineon, General Semiconductor, Dale, Draloric, Sprague, Vitramon, and BCcomponents (the former passive components business of Philips Electronics and Beyschlag). These names and the products associated with them are integrated into one global company: Vishay.

Vishay components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computer, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Vishay's global footprint includes manufacturing facilities in China and other Asian countries, Israel, Europe, and the Americas, and sales offices around the world.

Vishay has a diverse product portfolio — from specialty to commodity components — from resistors, capacitors, inductors, transducers and strain gages (passives) to diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, power ICs, analog switches and multiplexers (actives) to infrared data communication devices (IRDCs), LEDs, and IR emitters, detectors, and receiver modules (optoelectronics).

Vishay’s "One-Stop Shop" Service

With Vishay's "one-stop shop" service, customers can send their bills of materials (BOMs) to Vishay and ask the Company to cross-reference Vishay products in all categories. This enables customers to order multiple components from one source: Vishay. In addition, Vishay's product sample service for design engineers provides free product samples worldwide. (To request Vishay samples, please contact us here)

Vishay: A Leading Worldwide Manufacturer

Vishay's innovations in technology, superior product quality, successful acquisition strategy, and focus on cost reductions have made the company a global industry leader.

Semiconductors - No. 1 worldwide in:
  * Discrete power semiconductors
  * Diodes
  * Power rectifiers
  * Low-voltage power MOSFETs
  * Infrared components

Passive Components - No. 1 worldwide in:
  * Wirewound and other power resistors
  * Leaded film resistors
  * Thin film SMD resistors
  * Wet and conformal-coated tantalum capacitors
  * Capacitors for power electronics

Vishay: Recent Releases

The TM8 series of high-reliability, surface-mount tantalum capacitors with very low DC leakage current (DCL) down to 200 nA.

Four 500-V, 16-A n-channel power MOSFETs with ultra-low 0.38-Ω maximum on-resistance at a 10-V gate drive, and an improved gate charge of 68 nC, in the TO-220AB,TO-220 FULLPAK, D²PAK, and TO-247AC packages.

The 146 CTI capacitors offer the most severe reflow soldering profile available in eight case sizes, ranging from 10 mm by 10 mm by 10 mm to the larger 18 mm by 18 mm by 21 mm.

“BCD has supported us on behalf of Atmel and Vishay for several years, supplying Micros and High Voltage Fets . We often require samples at short notice and BCD work hard to help us out.”
Richard Blakesley – Senior Design Engineer with Pelikon (a major player in Mobile Handset Technology)

BCD are very proud to be representing Vishay in the UK and Ireland and can offer full technical design support through to delivery anywhere in the world, whether it be direct from Vishay or through one of their many Distribution Partners worldwide.

Best known for their Resistor and Capacitor Technology, Vishay have grown into the Worlds broadest supplier of both Passive, Opto and Discrete Semiconductor products.

With turnover approaching 1 Billion US $, Vishay aggressively strives to be number one in all of their chosen technologies through continued innovation, lowest cost and superb one stop shop logistics support.

Vishay have design wins in almost every electronics application conceivable from Industrial, Telecoms and consumer through to Hi Rel, Military and Automotive markets.

Vishay have long standing relationships with all the major OEM’s CEM’s and Distributors worldwide built on trust, integrity and forward moving technology and quality.

Often some of the lowest cost items on any electronics board, Vishay still realise the importance of quality and delivering products on time.

Delivering millions of different products each day Vishay have developed world beating Logistics to support their huge array of devices without at all compromising on quality or price.