PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is well-placed to fill the growing calls for within the semiconductor market, mentioned Siemens Malaysia Sdn Bhd.
Its president and CEO Tindaro Danze mentioned the nation is additionally ready to lead by instance in constructing higher sustainability within the semiconductor area equivalent to wafer fabrication and built-in circuit (IC) design.
“The Asia Pacific (APAC) semiconductor market is projected to take pleasure in double-digit development in 2024, in brief, demand is rising, and Malaysia is ready to fill these orders.
“Complacency, nevertheless, may simply see the nation lose out to different regional upstarts,” he mentioned.
Last yr, Malaysia secured 13% of the worldwide manufacturing testing market share and exported almost RM580 billion in semiconductor merchandise.
Meanwhile, Danze mentioned because the world continues to embrace sustainability and circularity in enterprise practices, chip producers, no matter the place they’re within the provide chain, ought to be doing the identical.
“We are on the level now, for instance, the place the very machines used not simply in packaging and testing, however even throughout foundries and IC vegetation, are being designed with mechatronic idea designer platforms.
“These platforms are built-in with synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered, physics-based ‘digital twin’,” he added.
He mentioned these machines might be operated and stress-tested inside the digital setting, permitting corporations low-risk, cost-effective alternatives to predict efficiency, optimise operations and implement enhancements.
“This is all performed with out incurring the price of constructing bodily prototypes,” he famous.
Danze mentioned these complicated and dear machines can now be designed and constructed much more effectively, minimising waste and useful resource consumption.
“On the opposite hand, Malaysia ought to optimise the usage of current, non-renewable utilities equivalent to water, which is a deeply necessary, but underappreciated utility,” he mentioned.
Danze mentioned he believes Malaysia ought to improve the nationwide water infrastructure over the following few years, not only for the general public curiosity.
He emphasised the necessity to serve key industries like excessive value-added manufacturing, the native semiconductor provide chain, information centre cooling necessities, medical know-how, and extra.
“It is now doable to combine next-gen applied sciences equivalent to AI and cutting-edge, low-power sensors all through the bodily water infrastructure, decreasing pipe leaks by up to 50%.
“These programs are so delicate, they’ll establish leaks as small as 0.5 litres per second throughout hundreds of kilometres of water pipelines,” he mentioned.
Danze mentioned as Malaysia turns into entrenched as a world semiconductor hub, the mixing of next-gen AI-enabled applied sciences is creating new alternatives for development in an trade already rife with innovation.
