Another big semiconductor push

The NSS needs to be more than just a good big picture plan. It needs to help push facilitative initiatives such as fast-tracking the hiring of foreign engineers and reducing red tape in the creation of more enterprises in the sector.

THE National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS) announced during the recent widely attended SEMICON South-East Asia 2024, is a step in the right direction.

But visibly absent in the plan is one element which the sector needs — the acknowledgement that Malaysia cannot move up the sector’s value chain without putting out the red carpet to attract foreign engineering talent into the country.