SSIA Updates
Building Singapore’s Ecosystem With The World
Australia: Southeast Asia Economic StrategyFrom left to right: Ms Alexis Crowell, Intel; Mr Ang Wee Seng, SSIA; Mr Jagadish CV, Advanced Micro Foundry; Mr Nicholas Moore, Special Envoy for Southeast Asia; Mr How Chong Peng, GlobalFoundries; Mr Andrew Goh, Lam Research...
Summer Camp — IC Design Your Future
Back in July, the IC Design Committee proudly brought the inaugural Summer Camp - IC Design Your Future to the students. This is in partnership with NTU, NUS and SUTD; and strongly supported by EDB. It was a 3-Days immersive program from 20 to 22 July 2022, which gave...
IC Design Committee
The IC Design Committee was initiated in mid-2021, led by a group of leaders from leading product and manufacturing companies’, as well as representatives from the Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL), supported by EDB and SSIA; with the objective to drive and sustain...
Semiconductor Business Connect 2022 – Strengthening and Growing the Local Ecosystem
On 19 May 2022, the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) presented our first larger physical event for 2022, with more than 220 onsite, as well as online attendees from about 100 multi-national corporations, SMEs and government entities coming together...
Growing the Talent Pool for Semiconductor and Electronics Industry
Talent attraction and development has always been a key focus of SSIA and this year, we have extended the outreach further. Regent Secondary School Career Talk - 16 Mar 2022 Victoria Junior College Career Talk – 25 Feb 2022 Marsiling Secondary School Career Talk – 11...
Soh Lip Leong: Hunting As A Pack
In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies large and small are regrouping to plan for more stable times. Joining the SSIA board at this pivotal moment, ams OSRAM Sensors Singapore Senior VP and GM Soh Lip Leong is setting his sights on supporting SMEs wade...
Semiconductor Business Connect 2021 – Emerging Stronger as an Industry
SSIA kicked off a three-day Semiconductor Business Connect 2021 on 27 July, bringing together multi-national, SME, academic and government entities for thought leadership and insight sharing, as well as business matching and networking opportunities. As one of the...
SSIA Leadership in Engineering – 12 to 23 July 2021 Virtual Training Programme Review
“The growth and development of your people is the highest calling of leadership” – Harvey Firestone For the semiconductor industry to realise its highest potential through this period of exhilarating growth and transformation, it is paramount for organisations to...
Temasek Polytechnic Advanced Manufacturing Centre – Enabling talents and solutions for the industry
Temasek Polytechnic (TP) has set up a S$7 million TP Advanced Manufacturing Centre (TP AMC) on its campus. It was officially opened by Minister for Education, Mr Chan Chun Sing, on 18 June 2021. AI-empowered and data driven, TP AMC is an authentic advanced...
Two Customised SSIA Leadership Programmes To Be Launched
Course framwork of SSELP Programme Singapore Semiconductor Leadership Accelerator (SSLA) Since SSIA’s signature leadership training programme, Singapore Semiconductor Leadership Accelerator (SSLA) programme, finished its last run in 2020, there have been calls from...
Automation Supplier Day is now known as…Semiconductor Business Connect 2021
The pandemic and ongoing trade tensions have a mixed impact on the semiconductor industry. While the sector is facing uncertainties such as the global chips shortage and supply chain disruption, it is set to continue its robust growth well into the next decade due to...
Mastering Influence Through Story-Telling
Several years ago, I was invited to help a semiconductor organisation facilitate a quality transformation program. The mission - to eliminate preventable, human-error induced incidents that were impacting shipment and client retention. The data was clear – a 1%...
SSIA HR Roundtable – Emerging Stronger for a New Normal
Over 40 HR Heads of the industry and partners joined the SSIA HR Roundtable with the theme ‘Emerging Stronger for a New Normal’ on 15 April 2021. Topics discussed included the latest hiring trends and initiatives supporting the company workforce facing the shifting...
Workforce Singapore’s Volunteer Career Advisors Initiative
Workforce Singapore’s new volunteer Career Advisors initiative aims to provide individuals with peer-level support and career guidance as they seek to advance their careers or make transitions. Coming from diverse professional communities and possessing deep industry...
Electronics Industry Day 2021
The Virtual Launch The Electronics Industry Day 2021 closed with great success with the support from JTC and e2i. Over 1,500 participants including students from various Institutes of Higher Learning and job seekers joined the events and activities held from January...