Originally just a single factory on a paddy field, Intel Malaysia has grown into a mega site covering over 7 million sqft, with 16 buildings and a workforce 15,000 strong.
It’s the first time I’ve been to Penang since I was a child probably. Having grown up in Ipoh, I seldom found the time or need to head up north; it’s not like the food there is better than Ipoh anyway.
These days though, things have changed quite drastically. Intel Malaysia still isn’t quite where you’ll find Intel’s semiconductor wafers being fabbed, but their campuses here play a crucial role in Intel’s global manufacturing network—a marked shift from the original A1 plant that originally assembled just the 1103 DRAM integrated circuit.
That’s just all the die preparation. The next stage at the Kulim facility is die sorting, where you’ll find huge machines stacked in rows, each housing 20 test cells that test each chip for defects, ensuring they’re up to spec. The die sorting side of the Kulim facility was also where we stumbled upon these curious little blue robots. They’re automated guided vehicles that collect a stack of dies from storage and automatically sends them over to the testing machines.
And lastly, Intel Malaysia is also host to their own System Integration and Manufacturing Services facility. Due to how vertically integrated Intel is, the company needs to make some very,specialised equipment for itself; it’s not like you can just go onto Shopee and look for a High Density Burn-In Tester machine that lets you do burn-in testing on still-unreleased processors. SIMS is very much a one-of-a-kind factory.
Whenever we asked members of staff how long they had been at Intel Malaysia, it was oftentimes over a decade with the shortest tenure we encountered being four years, a fresh-faced assistant to a veteran technician who had been there for nearly two decades. There were plenty of employees here with faded badges too, a sign that they have been year for long.
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