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最新消息是檳州的跨國半導體電子科技大財團【Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc】正式宣布將於今年底撤離馬來西亞，目前正安排變賣其位於檳州峇六拜自由貿易區占地20英畝的廠房設施，預計又將導致約1,000名大馬員工失業！

Fairchild集團在全球擁有約9千名員工。它是繼日本JVC之後，另一個在今年內宣布撤出大馬市場的電子科技集團。沙亞南JVC廠已經在今年7月1日宣布停止運作，數百位大馬員工在哽咽聲中面對遣散的命運。

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Fairchild to sell Penang factory, 1,000 set to lose jobs

GEORGE TOWN: Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc, known as National Semiconductor when it first came to Malaysia in 1972, is selling its manufacturing facility in the Free Industrial Zone (FIZ), Bayan Lepas as part of its worldwide realignment exercise. About 1,000 people will lose their jobs.

The plant, currently operating with about 500 full-time staff, is expected to close by the end of the year.

The San Jose, California headquartered company announced last August that it would cease operations in West Jordan, Utah, Penang, and Bucheon in South Korea.

The changes are scheduled to take effect between the second and fourth quarter of this year.

The closure may affect around 15% of Fairchild’s global workforce of 9,000 employees.

It is learnt that there are two multinational corporations – one from Germany and the other from the United States – which are interested to acquire the property located on over 20 acres. Sources told StarBiz that one of the MNCs, involved in manufacturing medical devices, is keen to buy the property to expand the company’s operations in the state.

The property has been valued at between RM200 and RM300 per sq ft.

Fairchild Semiconductor was one of the eight comnpanies that set up operations in Penang in the 1970s, together with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Hewlett Packard (now called Agilent Technologies), Clarion, Intel, Hitachi (now called Renesas), Litronix (now called Osram Opto Semiconductor) and Robert Bosch.

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