Microchip factory stoppage puts UK defense projects at risk – Telegraph

A US semiconductor company could be forced to close its UK site after being ditched by Apple as a supplier

The British military is bracing for supply disruptions, after one of the country’s biggest microchip plants ceased taking new orders, the Telegraph wrote on Tuesday.

Coherent, a US corporation headquartered in Pennsylvania, maintains a 29,000 square-meter site in Newton Aycliffe, Country Durham, UK.

The firm has said it...