Micron's factories in Muar and Penang “were briefly shut down” before officials there declared chip factories essential, Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra told investors on a conference call last month. He said the factories “have since been able to return to production on a very limited basis, in compliance with local regulations.”
Computer chip makers are banking on less disruptions to their factories from this week's strict lockdown in Singapore than the havoc wreaked on their supply chains last month when Malaysia and the Philippines imposed vague restrictions about "essential" operations.
In the United States, chipmakers are considered essential businesses and allowed to operate. But with no uniform global definition of "essential," industry executives say their delicate supply chains have hit snags as lockdowns played out differently in different countries, with Malaysia and the Philippines both shuttering or reducing work at factories.
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