Intel to move part of production from Malaysia to Vietnam

[DaiViet]

Intel to move part of production from Malaysia to Vietnam
US-based chipmaker Intel Corporation will relocate a part of its production facility in Malaysia to Vietnam as well as China in an effort to cut labor costs, according to government website chinhphu.vn.

The relocation of the Intel plant in Kulim to facilities in Ho Chi Minh City and Chengdu (China) will result in the layoff of 600 Malaysian workers at the plant, chinhphu.vn reported, quoting Malaysian news website The Star.

In addition to the relocation, the Kulim plant, specializing in manufacturing motherboards and assembling processor packaging since 1995, will receive new technology products from places like Costa Rica to support the server market and other trendy consumer electronic products, The Star reported.

Intel has employed about 8,000 Malaysian workers, more than 40% of whom are working for the Kulim plant.

That smartphones are increasingly popular has led Intel to change strategy and promote the production of processors at a higher level, the Malaysian news website said.

Many technology corporations like Samsung, LG, and Microsoft have also been also moving production bases to Vietnam due to the advantage of cheap labor and the strategic location of the country as a gateway to the Southeast Asian region.

Gearing up

Intel Products Vietnam CEO Sherry Boger in November last year announced that the company would install a second production line to manufacture computer CPUs at its Ho Chi Minh City factory, part of Intel’s effort to expand the production of its flagship products in the Southeast Asian country.

Four months earlier, Sherry Boger had said that eighty percent of the Intel semiconductor chips used in computers around the world would be made at its plant in Ho Chi Minh City by August 2015.

Meanwhile, the 4th generation Haswell CPUs would be produced at the plant in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park in District 9 by October last year, Boger told local media then.

To achieve the target, the company had imported 71 pieces of equipment from factories in Malaysia and Costa Rica and sent 105 Vietnamese engineers to the Malaysian factory for training.

It would import 159 more devices to ramp up CPU production in Vietnam, she added.

Intel Products Vietnam has more than 1,000 local employees and it took them only two months to be certificated to produce the Haswell processors, which the CEO said was an unexpected success for such a hard-to-make product.

The Vietnamese plant is making two of Intel’s flagship products, the SOC (system on a chip), used for tablets and smartphones, and the Haswell CPU after the chip-making titan began its operations at the SHTP in 2010, Boger told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in July last year.

It took the Intel factory in China’s Chengdu fifteen years, and one in Malaysia 40 years, to reach a similar milestone, Boger added.

In April 2014, Intel announced that it would transfer the assembly facility from Costa Rica to Asia to enhance competitive advantage.

 

[DaiViet]

More tech stuffs will come from Vietnam in future, despite some Chinese clowns here boasting about themselves and called us monkey, we aint lack of talents only lack of fund and good leadership atm.

 

[Beast]

More tech stuffs will come from Vietnam in future, despite some Chinese clowns here boasting about themselves and called us monkey, we aint lack of talents only lack of fund and good leadership atm.

Yes, when you make the world fastest super computer then you can start bragging abt it.

So by my analogy you are still a clown.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

More tech stuffs will come from Vietnam in future, despite some Chinese clowns here boasting about themselves and called us monkey, we aint lack of talents only lack of fund and good leadership atm.

What talent？lol this is just assembly line，which only employs a few production engineers.

Boast when Intel open up a Fab in Vietnam，which needs lots of qualified electronic engineers

 

[AViet]

One of my friends used to work in Intel plant in Ho Chi Minh in its early years. He said that it was for packaging only. No manufacturing at all.

After all, they are all foreign companies, which just want to use our cheap but highly educated labor force, comparatively. No need to brag about Samsung or Intel opening plants in Vietnam. Such type of plants are low-tech, assembly plant and can be moved to any cheaper country.

Wait until we have such plants who make electronic parts and owned by Vietnamese.

 

[Viet]

One of my friends used to work in Intel plant in Ho Chi Minh in its early years. He said that it was for packaging only. No manufacturing at all.

After all, they are all foreign companies, which just want to use our cheap but highly educated labor force, comparatively. No need to brag about Samsung or Intel opening plants in Vietnam. Such type of plants are low-tech, assembly plant and can be moved to any cheaper country.

Wait until we have such plants who make electronic parts and owned by Vietnamese.

I agree with you in part. no need to brag too much, but there is no need to lower the status of such foreign factories, either. or do you think modern factories fall out of the sky. all have to start somewhere. can you tell me what you friend did in the factory? just assembling parts?

I wonder why Intel do not employ some street food sellers for the factory? do you have any idea?

What talent？lol this is just assembly line，which only employs a few production engineers.

Boast when Intel open up a Fab in Vietnam，which needs lots of qualified electronic engineers

I assume all chinese can, when they reach 5 years, write programs in C++, can´t they?

 

[DaiViet]

One of my friends used to work in Intel plant in Ho Chi Minh in its early years. He said that it was for packaging only. No manufacturing at all.

After all, they are all foreign companies, which just want to use our cheap but highly educated labor force, comparatively. No need to brag about Samsung or Intel opening plants in Vietnam. Such type of plants are low-tech, assembly plant and can be moved to any cheaper country.

Wait until we have such plants who make electronic parts and owned by Vietnamese.

Did you even read the article? Did you even read my comment? Did you read the bold part? Brag about what? It gives you and the Cinese an idea the Viet has capability as competitive as any one despite some Chinese clowns and here often post counter productive and think they superior. Be honest I read most of your posts and mostly side with the Chinese clowns. Noi thu vai cau tieng viet di ban, minh thay nhieu nguoi gia Vietnam trong day do.

 

[AViet]

I agree with you in part. no need to brag too much, but there is no need to lower the status of such foreign factories, either. or do you think modern factories fall out of the sky. all have to start somewhere. can you tell me what you friend did in the factory? just assembling parts?

I wonder why Intel do not employ some street food sellers for the factory? do you have any idea?" .

Viet, I respect your patriot attitude, but I see that you are becoming more radical each year. You hate China and Chinese, fine to me. But be rational. Do not give false information just to satisfy your hatred.

For example: Cat Linh - Ha Dong rail line is funded by Chinese. It is delayed for around 1-2 years and you conclude that this is due to bad management by Chinese contractor. In fact, it is not. Actually, they are main contractor, but the work is done all by Vietnamese subcontractors, and the delay is mostly due to site clearance and inexperience of Vietnamese subcon.

The Nhon - Ga Ha Noi line is funded by French source. It has been delayed by at least 10 years (first groundbreaking ceremony was held in 2005). Maybe the French do not know at all how to build a train line, according to your logic

 

[Viet]

Viet, I respect your patriot attitude, but I see that you are becoming more radical each year. You hate China and Chinese, fine to me. But be rational. Do not give false information just to satisfy your hatred.

For example: Cat Linh - Ha Dong rail line is funded by Chinese. It is delayed for around 1-2 years and you conclude that this is due to bad management by Chinese contractor. In fact, it is not. Actually, they are main contractor, but the work is done all by Vietnamese subcontractors, and the delay is mostly due to site clearance and inexperience of Vietnamese subcon.

The Nhon - Ga Ha Noi line is funded by French source. It has been delayed by at least 10 years (first groundbreaking ceremony was held in 2005). Maybe the French do not know at all how to build a train line, according to your logic

I think you have a problem.

first, I don´t hate china and chinese people in general. I never say such a thing. check my posts! I hate lies, arrogance and aggression. in short, I hate clowns.

second, it is you who starts lowering foreign investments as samsung and intel in vietnam, calling them low tech, assembly works. I asked you why they moved to vietnam at all? why don´t stay where they are and employ some cheap and homeless workers? at all, as you say it, only primitive assembly. like your friend.

now you changed the topic to hanoi railway.

I suggest you do some more homeworks before posting nonsense.

no, not all work is done by Vietnamese subcontractors. you are wrong. after two serious incidents with one death, Vietnam's Minister of Transportation has ordered the chinese contractor to replace its consultants and subcontractors with locals, aka our people.

no, the delay is not mostly due to site clearance and inexperience of Vietnamese subcon, as you state it, but cost overruns (by $339 million) and incidents.

it is you who gives false information. can you tell me why?

I hope for you that you have no intention, nor agenda.

 

[William Hung]

AViet is a fan cuong of northeast asians, he loves Japanese and Koreans and is especially pro-Chinese. But I agree with some of his points. The Samsung/LG investments are nothing to brag about yet, they are just exploiting VN cheap labour force. Nothing really wrong with that, VN needs to start somewhere. If VN can successfully take advantage of their investments, then VN can start to brag.

no, the delay is not mostly due to site clearance and inexperience of Vietnamese subcon, as you state it, but cost overruns (by $339 million) and incidents.

If what you said is true, then why do VN keep giving the Chinese the contracts?

 

[Viet]

AViet is a fan cuong of northeast asians, he loves Japanese and Koreans and is especially pro-Chinese. But I agree with some of his points. The Samsung/LG investments are nothing to brag about yet, they are just exploiting VN cheap labour force. Nothing really wrong with that, VN needs to start somewhere. If VN can successfully take advantage of their investments, then VN can start to brag.



If what you said is true, then why do VN keep giving the Chinese the contracts?

why chinese as contractor?

because it is a part the agreement. China provided $419 million cheap loan, a form of Official Development Assistance (ODA). it is the first time ever, I believe. maybe the last time. the chinese side dictates the rules. similar situation when we receive japanese ODA. although japanese main contractors tend to give most of constructions to local vietnamese companies. unlike chinese, they tend to give to other chinese companies.

as for aviet, this guy hates vietnam. and most, india. worse, he spreads lies.

 

[DaiViet]

why chinese as contractor?

because it is a part the agreement. China provided $419 million cheap loan, a form of Official Development Assistance (ODA). it is the first time ever, I believe. maybe the last time. the chinese side dictates the rules. similar situation when we receive japanese ODA. although japanese main contractors tend to give most of constructions to local vietnamese companies. unlike chinese, they tend to give to other chinese companies.

as for aviet, this guy hates vietnam. and most, india. worse, he spreads lies.

Then properly is a fake Viet then. It does not take a genius to know someone is fake. Their mental say all.

 

[Jlaw]

Then properly is a fake Viet then. It does not take a genius to know someone is fake. Their mental say all.

So all "real" Viets must agree with you?

If not, they are fake Viets?


Logic--or lack of...

 

[DaiViet]

There are things that unique about Viet mentally And that said the same to every country. Take Chinese nationalist for example, often with superiority complex, that come from background once was empire but was humilated by countries that they considerred inferior than them but the fact it is really not. Or Khmer Amerian they are very emotion and angry at Viet and often try to put all blames to Viet as if it was the Viet cause all tragedies to them that can explain after genocide.