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Intel Plans to Diversify Chip Making in Malaysia BUSINESS ASIA By Bloomberg

Posted on: Friday, 9 December 2005, 15:00 CST

By Stephanie Phang

Intel, the world's largest computer-chip maker, said Thursday that it would invest $230 million in Malaysia to set up a test and assembly facility and a design and development center.

The investment will add 2,000 jobs at Intel's operations in Malaysia, the company's chairman, Craig Barrett, said.

Intel is increasing its investments in Asia to take advantage of lower costs and to expand output. In the past week it has pledged investments of more than $1 billion in India and $75 million in China, where it already has $1 billion invested.

Intel first started operations in Malaysia in 1972, with an assembly and test plant in the northern state of Penang. With "$3 billion invested, Malaysia has become increasingly integral to Intel," Barrett said. Intel has 10,000 employees in Malaysia, the company's biggest operational center outside the United States. Barrett said Monday that Intel would invest more than $1 billion in India over five years to expand research and development, bolster sales and buy into technology-related companies. He said Intel, which has no production facilities in India, was in talks with the government to set up a manufacturing plant.

The company's main investment in India so far is a research and development center in Bangalore.

Source: International Herald Tribune

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