Semiconductors · 9 stories
Malaysia’s semiconductor and E&E story — chip assembly, testing and packaging (ATP) investments, fab-adjacent suppliers and the industrial property demand they create across Penang, Kulim, Perak and beyond.
Cohu in Malaysia: Penang design centre, Melaka factory
Who is Cohu? A US chip-test equipment maker with its largest factory in Melaka and, since June 2024, a RM71 million design centre in Bayan Lepas, Penang. What it does, since when, …
SkyGate NHJ commits US$30mil to a 36,000 sq ft plant in the Perai Free Industrial Zone
The Malaysia–Singapore precision machining joint venture opened its Perai FIZ facility on 4 September with Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow officiating, committing US$30 million (RM121…
TT Vision commits RM92mil to a 153,000 sq ft factory on PDC’s Plot 81A, Bayan Lepas — RM160 psf land, RM600 psf to build, and a company worth RM105mil
TT Vision Technologies has awarded Yu Tong Construction a RM92 million contract to build a factory-cum-office on Plot 81A, Bayan Lepas Industrial Park — 3.6 acres leased from PDC f…
Penang approved RM17.3bil of manufacturing investment in six months — 77% of all of last year, and 69% of it is existing factories expanding
MIDA figures released on 3 September put Penang first in Malaysia for approved manufacturing investment in 1H2026: RM17.3 billion, 34% of the national total and 38% up year-on-year…
RM500 million bridge to Pulau Jerejak starts next month — and Penang wants a financial hub on the other side
Road widening begins in September for the 1km bridge giving Pulau Jerejak its first-ever road access. On the island: a 32ha development pitched as a financial centre for Penang’s 2…
NXP Breaks Ground on 500,000 sq ft Assembly and Test Expansion in Petaling Jaya
Dutch-American chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has broken ground on a new assembly and test building in Petaling Jaya that will add about 500,000 sq ft and take the Selangor site to r…
South Korea’s K-Test Breaks Ground on RM205mil Perak Plant, Its First in Southeast Asia
Semiconductor testing specialist K-Test has broken ground on a US$50mil (RM205mil) wafer and final testing plant in Perak — its first Southeast Asian facility — targeted for practi…
Jabil further Expands in Malaysia Roots as It Climbs the Manufacturing Value Chain
Thirty years after opening its first Asian factory in Penang, Jabil now runs six Malaysian facilities employing 14,000 people. Malaysia MD Tan Siew Jin tells The Edge how the group…
PM Anwar Opens MKS Inc’s RM400mil Super Center Factory in Batu Kawan
US semiconductor equipment giant MKS Inc has opened its Super Center Factory at Bandar Cassia Technology Park, Batu Kawan — its largest manufacturing investment since founding in 1…
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