Nexperia halts chip supplies to China in threat to global car production

Nexperia’s head office in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The company said it hoped to resume shipments to China. Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

Nexperia, the EU-based automotive chipmaker at the centre of a geopolitical dispute, has suspended supplies to its Chinese factory, stepping up a trade war that threatens to halt production at carmakers around the world.

The company wrote to customers this week informing them all supplies to a Chinese plant had been suspended.