With clear and detailed orientation and plans, Vietnam promises to become a center for the semiconductor chip industry with design, packaging and testing activities in the future.
A report from the Ministry of Information and Communications points out that Vietnam's demand for information technology and digital industry human resources is about 150,000 engineers/year, but currently only meets 40-50%; The semiconductor industry's human resource needs alone only meet about 20%.
Mr. Vu Quang Hung - Deputy Director of the Institute for Industry and Trade Strategy and Policy Research - said: Vietnam has participated in the semiconductor industry for a long time but only at the packaging and testing stage for some manufacturers. chips like Intel Corporation of America... Semiconductor chips have many different types, features and complexities, but Vietnam can only meet the requirements in the packaging of simple chips.
According to Ms. Do Thi Thuy Huong, Member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Electronics Business Association, the semiconductor industry involves many areas, from investment in production to handling technological processes and updating technology. Therefore, human resources for this industry do not only need IC design engineers. Because the role of design engineers is very important, but understanding the semiconductor manufacturing process is even more important, because the speed of technological change in this industry is extremely fast.
Thus, along with design engineers, this industry also needs experts, who, even though they study at the college level, must have good expertise, something that Vietnam still lacks.
According to experts, Vietnam is facing a great opportunity to develop the semiconductor chip industry, with the participation of many of the world's leading technology corporations. It is forecast that by the end of 2024, Vietnam's semiconductor industry will exceed the value of 6.16 billion USD, making Vietnam one of the important production centers of many global semiconductor businesses.
Typically, Samsung invests in Southeast Asia's largest product development center in Vietnam. A number of semiconductor chip businesses from the Netherlands have also begun investing in Vietnam.
The Dutch company BE Semiconductor Industries NV has received an investment certificate in Ho Chi Minh City Hi-Tech Park, with a capital of more than 115 billion VND (equivalent to 4.9 million USD) in the first phase, to invest. Factory rental, production. This project is expected to come into operation in the first quarter of 2025.
Most recently, in early July, within the framework of the Prime Minister's official visit to Korea, Permanent Vice Chairman of Bac Ninh Provincial People's Committee - Vuong Quoc Tuan awarded the Investment Adjustment Certificate to Amkor Co., Ltd. Technology Vietnam. Accordingly, Amkor's factory project for manufacturing, assembling and testing semiconductor materials and equipment in Yen Phong II-C Industrial Park was adjusted to increase capital by more than 1.07 billion USD.
Large Vietnamese enterprises such as Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel), Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and FPT Group have proactively built capacity to participate in the research process. chip development and production.
