KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — Malaysia is doing its best to reduce the backlog of orders in the semiconductor industry due to the disruption of operations in the past 12 months, following the imposition of lockdowns to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.
This includes fire and drought incidents involving fabrication factories in Japan, the United States and Taiwan, as well as the Suez Canal incident in March this year when container ship Ever Given was horizontally wedged and obstructed the traffic flow at one of the busiest trade routes in the world for almost a week.
“We also see more companies getting their employees vaccinated, and based on our survey, some companies are investing more and hiring more workers to boost their productivity as orders are quite high,” he told Bernama. “The high double digit increase y-o-y is because there was a big slump in Q2 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” he noted.
“Having said that, if the chip shortage continues over a long period of time, the entire industry will be impacted,” he added.
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