Kulim, Malaysia – When tech giant AT&S decided a few years ago that it needed to ramp up production to keep pace with the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, it did not look to its largest manufacturing facilities in China.
The Austrian firm’s plants in Chongqing and Shanghai – opened in 2022 and 2016, respectively – employ some 9,000 workers between them, churning out high-end components used in everything from consumer electronics to cars.
But AT&S was at the same time coming to…
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