NSS gets the strategy right

Peter Lim Tze Cheng, an ex-fund manager and a long-time analyst/observer of the semiconductor industry, says the NSS has nailed this once-in-a-generation opportunity. Malaysia should, however, be seen as an integral part of the global semiconductor value chain, regardless of the chip war.

DUBBED the Silicon Valley of the East, Penang became what it is today thanks to the late Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu’s foresight in 1970s.

Dr Lim’s success in bringing in The Eight Samurai in the early 1970s — Intel, Robert Bosch, Clarion, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Hewlett-Packard (now split into Keysight Technologies and Agilent Technologies), Litronix (now Osram), Hitachi (now Renesas), and National Semiconductor (subsequently acquired by Texas Instruments) — planted the seeds for Malaysia’s involvement in the electronic & electrical (E&E) sector.