As we all know, Malaysia is now one of the most important countries when it comes to the global semiconductor chip industry. Malaysia is a major destination for the testing and packaging of these chips. Major semiconductor chip design companies such as AMD, Intel, Micron and others have also made Malaysia their main testing and packaging center.
However, there is still a lot of room for this industry to grow, especially for Malaysia to start producing its own semiconductor chips. Therefore, the Advanced Semiconductor Academy of Malaysia (ASEM) and chip design company ARM have recently announced a collaboration to bring the ARM-On-Demand semiconductor chip design introduction program to Malaysia.
Through this collaboration, Arm-On-Demand is a 10-year program that has the ambition to not only train 10,000 semiconductor chip design engineers, but also to design the first locally developed semiconductor chips within the next 5-10 years.
Officiated by the Menteri Besar of Selangor, Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, he also said that the plan for this program is to train around 1000 engineers every year for the next 10 years. The program has started recently and already has about 400 participants.
The ARM-On-Demand program consists of engineering students and engineers from more than 40 local universities and 80 local engineering and technology companies, and the program will run for a period of three months.
During this period, those participating in this program will learn about various types of ARM component technologies, including Arm Cortex-A, Cortex-R, and Cortex-M processors, embedded systems, System on a Chip technology development, Mali graphics processing chip development, camera systems, NPU chip development for artificial intelligence and so on.