These countries want to be the next big semiconductor hubs: Manufacturing powerhouses Mexico, Malaysia, and India want to become less reliant on expensive imports — without competing with Nvidia or TSMC.
In February, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled Kutsari Center, a national chip design hub — the first step in an ambitious plan to develop a homegrown semiconductor industry.
Dozens of scientists and researchers stood by the president as she described the “very important” project. The center, due to open next year, is key to a semiconductor factory which could reduce the country’s $24 billion annual spend on importing chips for its electronic and automotive industries.
“We want to stop being a country that assembles chips and become one that designs and makes them,” Edmundo Gutiérrez Domínguez, general coordinator of Mexico’s national semiconductor plan, told Rest of World.
