{"id":648001,"date":"2026-10-16T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:56:12","slug":"optical-parts-maker-to-triple-malaysian-capacity-to-tackle-ai-supply-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648001\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical parts maker to triple Malaysian capacity to tackle AI supply crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/supply-chain\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supply Chain<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Taiwan&#8217;s FICG pursues China +1 strategy at request of US customers<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20261016 PRO3C\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">FICG began mass production earlier this year at its first Malaysian factory under its subsidiary Pro3C, and announced major expansion plans at this week&#8217;s official opening ceremony. (Photo by Lauly Li)<\/p>\n<p>LAULY LI<\/p>\n<p>October 16, 2026 14:29 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">JOHOR, Malaysia &#8212; A key component supplier for optical communications powering AI data center networks says it plans to more than triple its manufacturing capacity in Malaysia by the end of 2028 to help meet unprecedented demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Taiwan&#8217;s FICG pursues China +1 strategy at request of US customers FICG began mass production earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[345,114,118246,84747,85,46,78658,40183,31142,92131,9129,21926,189139],"class_list":["post-648001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-capacity","tag-crunch","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-maker","tag-malaysian","tag-optical","tag-parts","tag-supply","tag-tackle","tag-triple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}