The Nexperia crisis has left thousands of European production lines exposed. In October 2025 the Dutch government took control of Nexperia, the Nijmegen-based discrete and logic manufacturer owned by China's Wingtech, under the Goods Availability Act. China's commerce ministry responded by restricting exports of Nexperia products packaged at its Dongguan facility, and within weeks German automotive manufacturers were slowing production. If your bill of materials contains Nexperia diodes, transistors, MOSFETs or automotive logic, this guide covers your realistic options: qualified second sources by product family, what requalification actually involves, and how to secure genuine stock while the dispute runs its course.
What happened, briefly
Nexperia supply broke because its Dutch headquarters and its Chinese packaging operation stopped working as one company, and a large share of finished parts is packaged in China. Nexperia was spun off from NXP's Standard Products division in 2017 and acquired by Wingtech in 2019. It ships tens of billions of units a year, and a large share of its finished parts are packaged in China. That footprint became the fault line: after the Dutch intervention, China restricted exports from the Dongguan site, cutting off finished-goods supply even where wafers were available. Nexperia's China unit was reported in late 2025 to be qualifying alternative wafer suppliers, a process expected to take around six months, while the legal dispute continues before the Dutch Enterprise Chamber. Honda alone has guided an operating-profit impact of roughly US$960 million for its fiscal year ending March 2026, and the case could run through appeals for years.
As of October 2026 the dispute is still open. On 11 February 2026 the Amsterdam Enterprise Chamber ordered a formal investigation into Nexperia's management and kept the interim measures in place, including the suspension of the former CEO and the frozen Wingtech voting rights. In May 2026 Wingtech answered with a lawsuit against Nexperia's leadership in a Chinese court under China's Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law.
The practical consequence for buyers: this is not a normal allocation cycle with a known recovery date. It is a geopolitical standoff, and planning has to assume continued disruption.
Why automotive buyers are hit hardest
Automotive buyers are hit hardest because Nexperia's catalog is dominated by AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q101 qualified small-signal parts: 74HC and 74HCT automotive logic, BAV99 and BAS16 switching diodes, BC846 and BCX5x transistors, BSS138 MOSFETs, ESD protection. These are cheap, unglamorous components designed into practically every ECU, body control module and sensor interface in a modern vehicle. A euro-cent diode can stop a production line just as effectively as a missing microcontroller, and because these parts sit on qualified automotive BOMs, buyers cannot simply solder in whatever is on the shelf.
Your three options when Nexperia parts are stuck
1. Wait it out. Viable only if you hold buffer stock beyond your exposure window. Given the six-month wafer requalification timeline and an unresolved court case, waiting is a bet most production planners cannot responsibly make.
2. Requalify a second source. The structural fix. Most Nexperia small-signal parts have functional equivalents from other manufacturers, but for automotive use the alternative must be AEC qualified and pass your own PPAP process, which typically takes weeks to months. Start now for the parts with the longest exposure; our guide to second sourcing electronic components covers how to run that qualification properly.
3. Secure genuine stock through the independent channel. The fastest fix and usually the bridge that buys time for option 2. Franchised distributors allocate what little they receive to contract customers first; the independent market holds stock that was bought before the crisis or released as excess. The difference between the two channels is explained in our guide to franchised vs independent distributors.
Nexperia alternatives by product family
Every major Nexperia small-signal family has at least three second-source manufacturers worth evaluating, but none of them is a drop-in for automotive use without qualification. The table below maps Nexperia's most designed-in families to the manufacturers that offer functional equivalents worth evaluating. It is a starting point for qualification, not a drop-in list. Our cross-reference guide covers the parameter checks for each candidate, and the SMD package size chart shows why one base number such as the BAV99 can ship in several packages with different names.
| Nexperia family | Typical parts | Second-source manufacturers to evaluate |
|---|---|---|
| Small-signal switching diodes | BAV99, BAS16, BAV70 | onsemi, Vishay, Diodes Incorporated, ROHM |
| Small-signal MOSFETs | BSS138, 2N7002, PMV series | onsemi, Vishay, Infineon, Diodes Incorporated |
| General-purpose bipolar transistors | BC846, BC856, BC807, BCX54 | onsemi, Diodes Incorporated, Infineon |
| Automotive logic (AEC-Q100) | 74HC and 74HCT -Q100 series | Texas Instruments (-Q1 logic), Diodes Incorporated, onsemi |
| ESD protection and TVS | PESD series | Vishay, onsemi, STMicroelectronics, Littelfuse |
Pin-compatible is not drop-in: the AEC reality check
For commercial designs, a same-function, same-package part from the table above can often be swapped after a datasheet review. Automotive is different. An AEC-Q101 diode from another manufacturer is qualified to the same standard, but it is not qualified in your product until it passes your PPAP, and parameters that rarely matter in commercial designs, such as switching recovery, capacitance and thermal behaviour, can shift subtly between vendors' processes. Budget real engineering time per line item, prioritise by exposure, and remember one more trap we have covered before: an alternate suffix or alternate factory code from the same manufacturer is not a second source, because it usually shares the same silicon and the same supply chain risk.
How GlobX helps
GlobX is an independent electronic-component distributor based in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, at the centre of the market this crisis hits hardest. As of October 2026 we list over 50 Nexperia lines, concentrated in exactly the families above, including automotive logic such as the 74HCT245PW, switching diodes such as the BAV99QAZ and small-signal MOSFETs such as the BSS138BK (our BJT vs MOSFET guide explains where a part like that replaces a small bipolar transistor). Every shipment passes ISO 9001 incoming inspection with anti-counterfeit checks, full traceability and a certificate of conformance on request, which matters doubly in a shortage, because crisis-driven demand is precisely where counterfeits cluster. Our guide on how to avoid counterfeit electronic components lists the checks to run on any shortage-era lot. We can also quote qualified second-source equivalents from the manufacturers in the table when you decide to requalify.
If Nexperia parts are holding your production plan hostage, send us your list. Request a quote with part numbers, quantities and date-code requirements, and we respond within 24 hours.
On the power side, the same logic applies: an automotive TrenchMOS like the BUK9Y25-80E,115 (80 V, 27 mOhm, LFPAK56, AEC-Q101) stays in active production, but franchised availability moves week to week, so verified independent stock has become part of the sourcing plan for exactly these commodity power parts.
If the qualification terminology in this guide is new territory, our explainer on AEC-Q100 vs AEC-Q101 covers what automotive grade actually requires, which standard applies to which component class, and why the qualification is tied to the exact ordering code.
