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Covid-19 surge in Malaysia threatens to prolong global chip shortage

Malaysia is one of the world’s top destinations for assembly and testing of the devices that control smartphones, car engines and medical equipment (Photo: Bloomberg) — Malaysia is one of the world’s top destinations for assembly and testing of the devices that control smartphones, car engines and medical equipment **(Photo: Bloomberg)**

6 min read . Updated: 29 Aug 2021, 07:07 PM IST Feliz Solomon, The Wall Street Journal

Southeast Asia country is cited as auto makers cut production, highlighting little-known but critical link in semiconductor supply chain

SINGAPORE : A surge of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia, a little-known but critical link in the semiconductor supply chain, has opened a new front in the battle to fix manufacturing woes that have rippled across industries during a global shortage of computing chips.

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