As the famous financial and technology center in Asia, Singapore has been relatively weak in chip manufacturing. However, this country is currently trying to support the development of its electronics industry, and sets 50% of manufacturing in the 192030 manufacturing, and semiconductors will play an important role in which foreign investments will play an important role in achieving this goal.

On the 11th of Nijing Asia, it is reported that the core is announced in June this year that it will invest more $ 4 billion in Singapore to expand its wafer production line to solve the problem of global chip shortage. Prior to this, Yingfine also chose Singapore as its artificial intelligent application development base and announced the investment commitment of 27 million Singapore ($ 20.2 million) in December last year.

A spokesperson in the Municipal Mechanism said that "Singapore will benefit from the more investment of the foundry players," But the main participants in the current workshop are China Taiwan (64%), South Korea (18 %) And mainland China (6%), almost occupy almost all market share in the world.

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Minister of Industry, said in July this year, in the semiconductor industry, Singapore accounts for about 5% of the global wafer manufacturing capacity. "Enterprises here is due to our technical talents, global interconnection, conveniently, and mature semiconductor research and manufacturing ecosystems." He pointed out that Singapore also occupied 19% of the global semiconductor equipment market.

Since last year, the global chip shortage caused by the epidemic caused an urgent need for chip production capacity. Among them, the shortage of automotive chip has risen to become a problem that governments currently need to solve. The health crisis has also increased the demand for consumer electronics and digital services, further stimulating the need for chips that drive these products. But the global dependence on China's Taiwan chip manufacturer has triggered concerns about the risk of supply interruption.

The latest supply chain assessment of Washington pointed out that the dependence of China's advanced chip is a potential weaknesses of the semiconductor supply chain, and the interruption of local production may cause electronic equipment manufacturers to lose nearly $ 500 billion in income.

At the same time, in the past year, the chip nationalism is strong. The US Senate adopted a two-party bill worth $ 52 billion to support the domestic chip industry, and the EU's goal is to achieve 20% of semiconductor production in 2030. Japan and China also use the development of the semiconductor industry as a policy focus.

However, in addition to the large amount of investment brought by the chip manufacturer, Singapore will remain unknown from this trend. Guo Yu, Chief Asia-Pacific Analyst, Strategic Consulting, said that even if the supply chain is diversified, China Taiwan will not give up its dominant position in the industry.

"Compared with Singapore, Taiwan will retain some advantages, such as lower operating costs (land and labor), more mature and better integrated supporting industries, manufacturers of many personal equipment and household electronic products," yu said "Singapore is likely to encounter fierce competition from other places because many local governments have enhanced autonomous in the semiconductor field."