Malaysia is house to suppliers and factories serving semiconductor makers resembling Europe’s STMicroelectronics and Infineon, in addition to main carmakers together with Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co.
View PhotosMalaysia accounts for 13 per cent of worldwide chip packaging and testing
Malaysia’s assist is required to resolve the worldwide scarcity of auto semiconductors, particularly in terms of packaging, a sector affected by the nation’s COVID-19 curbs, Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua mentioned.
Taiwan, as a significant chip producer, has been entrance and middle of efforts to resolve the scarcity, which has idled auto crops around the globe.
Speaking in an interview late on Thursday at her ministry, Wang advised Reuters that Taiwan alone couldn’t type out the issue as a result of the availability chain is so advanced.
“The bottleneck in fact is in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, because for a while the factories were all shut down,” she mentioned.
The drawback was particularly acute with auto chip packaging, with corporations in Malaysia offering companies not supplied by Taiwanese companies, Wang added.
“Now the focus is on Malaysia resuming production as soon as possible. I know that Malaysia started to restore production capacity in early September, and now the production capacity has returned to about 80%, so if their capacity can slowly come back, this problem can be slowly dealt with.”
TSMC mentioned it will inform the federal government if any assist was required.
Malaysia is house to suppliers and factories serving semiconductor makers resembling Europe’s STMicroelectronics and Infineon, in addition to main carmakers together with Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co.
Malaysia Semiconductor Industry Association President Wong Siew Hai mentioned that the foremost Malaysian semiconductor producers are already working at full capability to produce the auto trade.
“For the automotive chips, they are doing their best to ship as much as possible, but the current capacity cannot meet demand because it’s too huge, the build-up is a lot,” he mentioned. “Everything is at 100% to satisfy the demand for automotive parts. Where they can increase productivity, they’re already doing so.”
Adding capability will take time, with most obtainable solely subsequent 12 months, Wong mentioned.
Malaysia accounts for 13% of worldwide chip packaging and testing, and seven% of the world’s semiconductor commerce passes by way of the nation, with some worth added at native factories and chips getting mixed with different components earlier than closing cargo.
The White House pressed automakers, chip corporations and others final month to offer data on the semiconductor disaster.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Wang reiterated the United States was not concentrating on Taiwanese companies and was voluntary, whereas Washington had assured Taipei that no delicate data could be leaked.
If companies need assistance, the federal government will present it, she added.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, mentioned it will inform the federal government if any assist was required.
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