Malaysia's Electrical and Electronics Industry
Rising Global Consultants
Electronic Components
Electronic components are fundamental elements embedded in all electrical and electronic devices, such as consumer electronics, industrial electronics, and appliances. This is reflected in its investment performance, with this sub-sector contributing the largest share in the Electrical and Electronics (E&E) industry, accounting for 62% in 2021, primarily driven by foreign investment
Due to the wide variety of products, this sub-sector provides crucial growth for the E&E industry, covering semiconductor devices like integrated circuits (ICs) and IC design and packaging activities, as well as passive components such as capacitors, resistors, connectors, inductors, crystal quartz, and oscillators. It also includes components like storage media, disk drive parts, printed circuit boards (PCBs), LED substrates and epitaxial layers, microcontrollers, and other metal and plastic parts used in electrical and electronic applications
0.6%
Domestic investment
92.9 billion Malaysian Ringgit
The total approved investment for 2021
99.4%
Foreign investment
Semiconductor Ecosystem
The semiconductor industry is one of the major contributors to Malaysia’s manufacturing sector. Compared to Malaysian companies, multinational corporations (MNCs) have a higher proportion in this ecosystem. Local industry participants’ strengths and capabilities are concentrated in the downstream of the semiconductor value chain, including assembly (advanced packaging) and testing, as well as system integration.
The resilience of the industry in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic should encourage potential investors, as it is a clear sign of the industry participants’ adaptability and agility. The pandemic and government measures caused significant disruptions to manufacturing businesses, including electronics and electrical, which also led to a substantial increase in demand for certain electronic and electrical products, thereby stimulating overall growth in semiconductors. As of June 2022, 83% of Malaysia’s population was fully vaccinated, mitigating the impact of the pandemic and paving the way for growth opportunities in Malaysia’s electronics and electrical ecosystem.
We welcome more investment in upstream and downstream semiconductor ecosystem activities, including support for integrated circuit (IC) design, engineering services, and solutions, as well as Malaysia’s strong and advanced IC packaging industry:
a) IC/system design b) Chip manufacturing/front-end activities c) IC packaging/back-end activities and engineering services solutions
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