Chia: “We closed our facility in Sunnyvale simply because it was not meaningful anymore.”
WITH its US testing facility in Sunnyvale, California ceasing operations, semiconductor company Unisem (M) Bhd has gone a step further to enhance its efficiency and now supports its key markets – the United States and Europe – completely out of its facilities in the East Asia where cost is more competitive.
“We closed our facility in Sunnyvale (by end-March) simply because it was not meaningful anymore, just like how we closed our facility in Wales two years ago,” chairman and group managing director John Chia Sin Tet says.
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