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Chip Wars: South-east Asia’s semiconductor surge amid US-China rift

Unlike Malaysia and Singapore, Indonesia’s chipmaking facilities is still in its nascent stage and has not yet made a substantial contribution to the country’s gross domestic products.
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Indonesia’s chip ambitions: A slow burn as it lags regional champs

Vietnam is forging partnerships with global chip powerhouses and enhancing workforce quality, aiming to send about 1,500 engineers abroad for chip design roles and another 5,000 for other chipmaking jobs within the next six years.
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Vietnam pins semiconductor ambition on robust workforce training

When viewed as a collective entity, Asean stands as the world’s largest exporter of integrated circuits or chips – complex assemblies of electronic components built on semiconductor materials.
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Thailand plays catch-up after a slow start in region’s chip race

Intel Malaysia's ATP facilities in Penang. With MNCs implementing US+1 and China+1 strategies, Malaysia stands to benefit from this trend.
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Malaysia’s chip sector booms amid US-China tech clash

The massive subsidies and incentives offered by China and the US to their chipmaking industry will be difficult for Singapore to outdo.
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Does Singapore have the stomach to back a local chip player?

Multinationals are working with the government and trade associations to improve knowledge transfer or pilot innovations with local suppliers.
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Chip wars: Singapore SMEs get a boost from big players’ efforts to nurture ecosystem

GlobalFoundries, one of the world's top five contract chipmaker,
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Is Singapore losing out on the AI chip boom?

After integrated circuits are fabricated on a wafer, it is cut into small pieces known as die that form the basis of a chip.
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Semiconductors 101: Chips, wafers and how they are made

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