by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Semiconductors & Advanced Manufacturing, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and increasingly the United States and Europe all compete for semiconductor manufacturing investment, but they compete on different things. Singapore does not attempt leading-edge logic; it competes on...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Semiconductors & Advanced Manufacturing, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore hosts a substantial precision engineering and contract manufacturing sector, including the listed design and manufacturing group Venture Corporation and the regional operations of global electronics manufacturing services firms. The sector...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Semiconductors & Advanced Manufacturing, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRST Engineering was formed in 1997 by merging Singapore’s defence-industrial companies into one listed group. It has since become the world’s largest commercial airframe maintenance provider while retaining defence, satellite communications,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Semiconductors & Advanced Manufacturing, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRChartered Semiconductor was Singapore’s state-backed attempt to build a world-class foundry, reaching third place globally before persistent losses led Temasek to sell it to an Abu Dhabi investor in 2009. The business became part of GlobalFoundries,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Semiconductors & Advanced Manufacturing, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore accounts for roughly a tenth of global semiconductor output and a substantially larger share of the world’s semiconductor manufacturing equipment production, despite having no domestic consumer electronics market. The sector is the single...
