Recently, the semiconductor majors are once again keen on Malaysia place, Infineon and Bosch have reinvested in the expansion of production.

Over the years of operating Malaysia Penang has.

become one of the world's top five electronics and semiconductor production, its global semiconductor packaging and passive components market has an important position. Public data show that in the first quarter of 2022 alone, the country attracted $4.4 billion in investment in the electronics and electrical sector, which has become the strongest performing segment of Malaysia's manufacturing industry.

Infineon's third factory in Gulin laid the foundation stone to further expand Malaysia's power semiconductor production capacity

According to foreign media sources, Infineon's third factory project in Jurin, Malaysia recently held a groundbreaking ceremony, with a total investment of more than RM8 billion (about 12.12 billion yuan), which will be used for the manufacturing of third-generation semiconductor silicon carbide and gallium nitride products, and is expected to be completed and put into operation in the third quarter of 2024.

Infineon's Chief Operating Officer Rutger Wijburg, who attended the ceremony, said the company's former wafer manufacturing base in the Jurin region has formed a scale advantage, and the third plant will contribute 2 billion euros in new output value when it reaches production, which will also enable Infineon to better meet the growth in demand for power semiconductors.

Bosch plans to invest another 3 billion euros in the field of semiconductors

In addition, Bosch plans to invest another 3 billion euros in its semiconductor division by 2026 as part of the IPCEI microelectronics and communications technology grant program, according to official Bosch sources.

Bosch is currently building a new semiconductor test center in Penang, Malaysia. By 2023, the center will be used to test finished semiconductor chips and sensors.

Bosch also plans to build two new development centers in Reutlingen and Dresden at a cumulative cost of more than 170 million euros. In addition, the company will spend 250 million euros in the coming year on a new 3,000-square-meter cleanroom space at its wafer fab in Dresden.

Publicly available information shows that Malaysia now has more than 50 semiconductor companies, such as AMD, Sunrise, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Intel, Renesas, X-FAB and Texas Instruments, etc., all of which have manufacturing or packaging plants in the country. In addition to international manufacturers, Malaysia's local packaging and testing plants include Inari and Unisem (which has been acquired by Huatian Technology for $2.992 billion in 2018).