October 18, 2025

The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) voiced deep concern over potential significant disruption to European vehicle manufacturing if the interruption of Nexperia chip supplies cannot be immediately resolved, according to the ACEA's announcement on its website released on Thursday local time.

On October 10, automobile manufacturers and their suppliers received notice from Nexperia outlining a sequence of events that results in them no longer being able to guarantee delivery of their chips to the automotive supply chain. Nexperia is an important, high-volume supplier of semiconductors that are often used in the electronic control units of vehicle electrical systems, for example, according to ACEA.

Without these chips, European automotive suppliers cannot build the parts and components needed to supply vehicle manufacturers and this therefore threatens production stoppages. While the industry already sources the same types of chips from alternative players on the market, the homologating of new suppliers for specific components and the build-up of production would take several months, while current stocks of Nexperia chips are generally predicted to last only a few weeks, the Association said.

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