Intel is known as a leading semiconductor and computer processing chip manufacturer, but did you know that the first semiconductor factory to open outside the United States was in Penang in 1975?
Yesterday, Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that he had received a call from Intel CEO, Lip-Bu Tan and Intel Foundry Executive Vice President and General Manager, Naga Chandrasekaran regarding the latest developments in the company’s investment in Malaysia.
2025 marks Intel's 50th year in Malaysia, and at the end of last year, the development of Intel's latest manufacturing campus, named Project Pelican located in the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Zone, is approaching 99 percent completion by the end of 2025.
The development of this manufacturing campus is estimated to cost approximately $7 billion (~RM28 billion), and will feature Intel's latest semiconductor chip packaging technology involving advanced packaging assembly and testing (advanced packaging using EMIB and Foveros technology) which will begin operations later this year.
Meanwhile, Intel will also emphasize improving the skills of local talent and generating high-value jobs along the supply chain at this assembly and packaging complex, expected to be in collaboration with a number of local higher education institutions.
