Malaysia Leveraging ARM IP To Fast Track Semiconductor Chip Design

Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir, Economy Minister, commented recently that Malaysia is leveraging its established strengths, at least in backend manufacturing, to facilitate semiconductor design with global architecture partnerships.

"Number one, we have to actually recognise the fact that Malaysia already has some strength, especially in terms of talent and expertise… for the past decades, we have proven our expertise of testing, equipment and packaging," Akmal said. "But at the same time, building on those strengths, Malaysia has embarked on a collaboration with Arm, for example, to gain access to IP design."

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