An arm to sign a $ 250 million chip deal with Malaysia

Malaysia has become a hot point for the manufacture of chips due to the increase in tensions between the United States and China, especially about the development of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence applications. As expected, technology companies around the world are looking to diversify the source of chips, and now hopes ARM Holdings to achieve the maximum benefit from this opportunity.

Supported Softbank chips maker He said On Wednesday, it signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to strengthen the ecosystem for the design of chips in the country.

As part of the deal, Reuters reported that Malaysia will pay the arm 250 million dollars More than 10 years to buy chips and technology designs for local manufacturers. Specifically, the country will buy IP, including seven of the ARM chips design plans, Reuters, Economy Secretary, Ravizi Ramli, killed.

ARM said the partnership will also witness the company training 10,000 engineers in Malaysia for its technology.

ARM refused to comment on the investment of $ 250 from the Malaysian government. The representative of the Malaysian government did not respond to the request to comment before publishing.

This step is the latest Malaysia’s latest efforts to become a center for making chips over the next decade. Earlier this year, Malaysia said Manufacturing Its graphics processing units to meet the demand for data centers and databases.

Malaysian government He said last May It will allocate at least $ 5.3 billion of financial support and train 60,000 engineers on the NASS semiconductor strategy (under which we will enhance the country to enhance the current infrastructure, develop an advanced chip supply chain, and attract major international customers.

Malaysia has participated in the chips industry more than 50 years ago, and it currently provides about 13 % of international chips, assembly and packaging test services, According to a report issued by Trendforce Which the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) was martyred.

In 1972, I created Intel The first production facility outside the United States in Penang, MalaysiaInvesting $ 16 million in the assembly site. The American chips giant said in December 2021 that it will invest more than $ 7 billion to create a set of chips and test in the country, which is also building The largest packaging facility 3D chips in Malaysia. Globalfoundries, the American Chips Company, has also opened A new center facility in Penang, Malaysia, in 2023And news, Dutch chip equipment maker, Plans to build a new factory in Malaysia.

In addition, a number of technology giants, including Googleand Microsoft and Nafidia It has announced billions of dollars in investments in Malaysia since 2023, in the first place for data centers, artificial intelligence development projects and cloud services.