SEE_Research Malaysia's help needed to ease global chip shortage, Taiwan says Ben Blanchard, Yimou Lee & Jeanny Kao / Reuters
October 01, 2021 16:14 pm +08
TAIPEI (Oct 1): Malaysia's help is needed to resolve the global shortage of auto semiconductors, especially when it comes to packaging, a sector affected by the country's Covid-19 curbs, Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said.
Taiwan, as a major chip producer, has been front and centre of efforts to resolve the shortage, which has idled auto plants around the world.
Speaking in an interview late on Thursday at her ministry, Wang told Reuters that Taiwan alone could not sort out the problem because the supply chain is so complex.
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READ MORE "The bottleneck in fact is in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, because for a while the factories were all shut down," she said.
The problem was especially acute with auto chip packaging, with companies in Malaysia providing services not offered by Taiwanese firms, Wang added.
"Now the focus is on Malaysia resuming production as soon as possible. I know that Malaysia started to restore production capacity in early September, and now the production capacity has returned to about 80%, so if their capacity can slowly come back, this problem can be slowly dealt with."
Malaysia is home to suppliers and factories serving semiconductor makers such as Europe's STMicroelectronics and Infineon, as well as major carmakers including Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co.
Malaysia Semiconductor Industry Association President Wong Siew Hai said that the major Malaysian semiconductor manufacturers are already running at full capacity to supply the auto industry.
"For the automotive chips, they are doing their best to ship as much as possible, but the current capacity cannot meet demand because it's too huge, the build-up is a lot," he said. "Everything is at 100% to satisfy the demand for automotive parts. Where they can increase productivity, they're already doing so."
Adding capacity will take time, with most available only next year, Wong said.
Malaysia accounts for 13% of global chip packaging and testing, and 7% of the world's semiconductor trade passes through the country, with some value added at local factories and chips getting combined with other parts before final shipment.
The White House pressed automakers, chip companies and others last month to provide information on the semiconductor crisis.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Wang reiterated the United States was not targeting Taiwanese firms and was voluntary, while Washington had assured Taipei that no sensitive information would be leaked.
If firms need help, the government will provide it, she added.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, said it would tell the government if any help was required.
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(a) SMIC is one of top regular ; repeated customer of Kelington Group Berhad ( b ) TSMC is one of top regular ; repeated customer of Kelington Group Berhad
SMIC = Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China
what PE 44? are u expecting same earning like last year? try calculate the future earning lah, if dont know how then go read kenanga report then at least u have an idea why current share is going up
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TO :keng88 Next year kgb revenue and profit x2 up 02/10/2021 2:44 PM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TO : keng88 Next year TP 3.00 - 4.00
1. Fully agreed with you , by September 2022 , this hidden jewel KGB/ 0151 will be well polished into a real GEM , will be over RM 5.00 , with WB reaching RM 3.00
Are you still blur , blur , BLUR on the huge potential for KGB/ 0151 to be the next hidden jewel for the dynamics growth of sales revenue that will translates into EPS for the KGB / 0151 into the star in the " Technology Sector " in KLSE.
Repeated customers for KGB 1. SMIC 2. TSMC 3. Stolt 4. Micron , Singapore 5. Western Digital, Selangor , Sarawak , Malaysia 6. Lam Research Singapore Pte. Ltd. , Singapore
7. Others
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( i ) The above mentioned customers are by itself ; world class companies that are clear leaders in their fields.
( ii ) Stolt is a world class conglomerate of huge storage tanks for chemicals; ships tankers moving the various chemical into final destination ports .
KGB warrant has gone up too fast by goreng factor … the company has potential but Kenanga setting too high TP whereas KLCI has no momentum to go up in this week …
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Posted by Kingbeast > 2021-10-01 21:18 | Report Abuse
Bearish market. What indicates also will indicate going down la