Malays launch first AI chip 7 nano tech

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Malaysia launches first local edge AI processor, MARS1000​

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By Elim Poon

• Technology
• Monday, 25 Aug 2025
  
  10:31 PM MYT

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has launched its first locally designed and developed edge AI processor.

Introduced by local semiconductor designer SkyeChip Sdn Bhd, the edge AI processor is dubbed as the MARS1000.

SkyeChip chief executive officer Fong Swee Kiang said MARS1000 is the first smart IoT chip that is built on a 7-nanometer process technology.

“The chip provides cost-effective, smart, efficient and artificial intelligence (AI)-ready solutions. With the MARS1000, Malaysia industrial players will now have a homegrown chip that can be used to power smart agriculture, Industrial 4.0, smart cities, smart traffic and safe cities.


“At the same time, the chip will enable the building of AI learning systems that will continue to propel Malaysian students to be AI-literate and be leading AI-knowledge workers,” he said during the Malaysia Semiconductor Industry Association (MSIA) Merdeka Dinner 2025 yesterday.

Fong added that with the MARS1000 chips, he hopes it will build an ecosystem, not only patents, intellectual property, and silicon products but an industry that can flourish in the AI supercycle that has just started.

Purpose-built for edge workloads, the MARS1000 enables autonomous robotics, intelligent video analytics, smart cities, industrial automation, and generative AI — positioning Malaysian innovation on the global AI stage.