by Ekrem Duman | Jul 27, 2026 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMalaysia dominates the semiconductor back-end — assembly, packaging and test — but earns lower margins there than the countries that design and fabricate chips. Its 2024 National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS) aims to change that, targeting a move up the value...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 27, 2026 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRIntel and Infineon illustrate why global chipmakers keep pouring investment into Malaysia. Intel started it all in 1972 with its first overseas plant in Penang and has since committed a major new investment in advanced packaging — a fast-growing, high-value...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 27, 2026 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRViTrox and Pentamaster are Malaysian companies that make the machines the electronics industry runs on — automated inspection systems, test equipment and factory automation — rather than assembling chips themselves. ViTrox is a global leader in machine-vision...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 27, 2026 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRInari Amertron is Malaysia’s standout homegrown semiconductor success — an outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) company that became one of Bursa Malaysia’s most valuable technology stocks. Its rise was built on radio-frequency (RF) chip packaging for...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 27, 2026 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Malaysia Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMalaysia is one of the most important nodes in the global semiconductor supply chain — not for making chips, but for assembling, packaging and testing them. Its share of the world’s chip packaging and test (the “back-end”) is estimated at over a tenth of global...
