THE Board of Investments (BoI) is looking into the establishment of a lab-scale wafer fabrication plant that will also be used to train the workforce for the local semiconductor industry.

"The wafer fab lab aims to train and upskill the workforce while enabling the local industry to do prototyping and some tape-outs of semiconductor chip designs in the country instead of bringing them all the way to Taiwan," it said.

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