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Foreign chipmakers and related firms stay on track with major projects in Singapore

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Technicians perform production control tasks in the cleanroom at Fab7 in the Globalfoundries Inc. semiconductor fabrication (fab) facility in Singapore.

GlobalFoundries says Singapore will be “considered favourably” as the firm decides where to further boost capacity.

PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

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SINGAPORE – Foreign chipmakers and related firms here are sticking to their expansion plans despite Washington’s efforts to keep cutting-edge chips out of China and woo investments back to the United States, experts said.

Companies including New York-based GlobalFoundries and Dutch firm ASML said they expect that the impact of the new US rules imposed in 2022 will be manageable.

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