SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) - Computer chipmakers are banking on less disruptions to their factories from this week's strict lockdown in Singapore than the havoc wreaked on their supply chains last month when Malaysia and the Philippines imposed vague restrictions about 'essential' operations.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SAN FRANCISCO - Computer chipmakers are banking on less disruptions to their factories from this week's strict lockdown in Singapore than the havoc wreaked on their supply chains last month when Malaysia and the Philippines imposed vague restrictions about"essential" operations.
Micron Technology and Applied Materials both told Reuters on Monday they believe their factories in Singapore will be allowed to run with protections in place for workers.Earlier lockdown confusion affected makers of all sorts of chips, from memory that goes into laptops and internet servers to specialty chips destined for ventilator manufacturers scrambling to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
He said the factories"have since been able to return to production on a very limited basis, in compliance with local regulations."Texas Instruments which said last month its factories in Malaysia and Singapore will"operate at significantly reduced levels in these two countries through mid-April", said it was adjusting delivery dates for about 3 per cent of items in its product line-up.
Intel, for example, opened a facility in Penang in 1977. An Intel spokesman said its Malaysian operation"remains operational and compliant with local government requirements", but declined to comment further on whether production had been reduced. When movement restrictions hit on the island of Luzon in the Philippines last month, the orders interrupted operations at a Cypress facility near Manila that packages those chips, said Ms Sonal Chandrasekharan, who heads the company's RAM chip business unit.
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