Claim: The history of manufacturing locations for National Semiconductor (now part of Texas Instruments which resulted in TI to have a combined portfolio of 45,000 analog products and customer design tools) include Test operations started in Hong Kong in 1967, start of manufacturing operations in Greenock, Scotland by 1969, however in 1972, they failed to establish their presence in South East Asia.
Evidence: Malaysia (/məˈleɪziə, -ʒə/ (listen) mə-LAY-zee-ə, -⁠zhə; Malay: [məlejsiə) is a country in Southeast Asia. Assembly and test operations started in the two Malaysia states of Malacca and Penang. 1972