The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has reported a strong surge in tech-related investments in the first 7 months of 2025.
PEZA approved nearly P91 billion investments from January to July, doubling last year’s figure. This reflects robust investor confidence in the country’s stable policies and world-class talent pool.
Tech investments primarily center on cutting-edge electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, information technology, and business process management (IT-BPM).
Among July’s notable approvals is a P13-billion semiconductor manufacturing services facility in Batangas. This facility will produce computers, electronics, and semiconductor devices for export to the United States. This project exemplifies how PEZA locators diversify supply chains and position the Philippines within global trade shifts.
Additionally, the 150 approved projects nationwide for the period include many in IT-BPM and electronics manufacturin. Collectively, they arey expected to create 35,874 direct jobs—a 42 percent increase from the previous year—and generate $2 billion in exports, up 24 percentyear over yearr.
The rise in investment activity reflects a broader strategy to build smarter, greener, and inclusive economic zones that catalyze sustainable growth corridors.
PEZA Director General Tereso Panga emphasized that these tech-driven investments underscore the agency’s success in promoting the Philippines as a competitive destination for technology industries, ready to leverage opportunities from evolving global markets and ongoing negotiations on trade agreements with the US.
This tech investment momentum aligns with PEZA’s reported growth across the year: a 294 percent increase in approved investments in Q1 2025 focused heavily on manufacturing and IT-BPM sectors, and a 59 percent overall rise for the first half of the year, with South Korea, the US, China, Germany, and Japan as key investor sources.
In summary, the Philippines is rapidly gaining ground as a tech investment hub in Southeast Asia, driven by surge in semiconductor manufacturing, electronics, IT services, and business process management projects within PEZA ecozones that promise significant job creation, export growth, and supply chain diversification.
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