Singapore’s semiconductor industry began in the 1960s, with the introduction of early assembly and testing activities. In a span of over 40 years, Singapore has grown its semiconductor sector into its current established state. In 2005, the semiconductor cluster employed more than 30,000 people and produced S$27.5 billion in terms of output and S$7.3 billion in terms of total value-added.

Singapore has always been a favourite base for high-volume, mass market manufacturing activities. Semiconductors are small, high-tech and fast-moving products and wafer fabrication as well as assembly and testing companies have found that they can produce efficiently in Singapore, for export to the rest of the world.

From research and development, manufacturing, integrated circuit (IC) design, supply-chain management, logistics and distribution, to HQ activities, Singapore offers a total solutions environment of shared services for players in the semiconductor industry. Today, Singapore's highly interconnected semiconductor domain consists of the following: 

• 14 wafer fabrication facilities, with two of them offering 12-inch technology, which is the most sophisticated in the world today
• 19 assembly and test operations, which include the world’s top three subcontract assembly and test companies
• About 40 IC design centres and over 800 IC engineers, of which about two-thirds are analogue and mixed signal designers.

Our vision is to develop our four existing wafer fabrication parks and one advanced display park into the most preferred locations for wafer fabrication and advanced display facilities. The parks are located in Woodlands, North Coast, Tampines and Pasir Ris and offer 261 hectares of prepared land.