The Vietnam Semiconductor Innovation Network made its debut on October 29 within the framework of the Vietnam Semiconductor Summit.

Labor experts believe that new graduates majoring in microchip design can earn VND220 million a year after tax, while veteran engineers can earn up to VND1.5 billion.

Vietnam is expected to attract foreign experts and technologies, especially overseas Vietnamese scientists working in the semiconductor industry.

Da Nang University on Thursday hosted a workshop, with the primary objective of nurturing the growth of top-tier human resources tailored for the semiconductor chip industry in Vietnamese higher education institutions.

Vietnam’s economy is believed to have overcome the most difficult period and is on the way to recovery. Analysts say that a decade of breakthroughs is ahead.

Vietnam's workforce demand in the semiconductor–microchip field is forecast to be around 20,000 engineers for the next five years, and 50,000 engineers in the next 10 years, according to economists from the Fullbright University.

Vietnam could provide about 50,000 semiconductor engineers to the US by 2030.

Vietnam is making strong progress in advancing its standing in the global semiconductor supply chain as many of the world’s largest chip manufacturers have landed in the Southeast Asian nation, insiders said.

Promoting an ecosystem supporting semiconductor chip manufacturing businesses will help Vietnam attract major chip manufacturers.

Despite daunting challenges in the trade sector across the globe, Vietnam has been persistent in its goal of luring high-quality foreign direct investment, with the semiconductor industry expected to breath fresh air into the nation’s economy.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung said Vietnam will accelerate the process of joining the regional semiconductor ecosystem to attract semiconductor enterprises to come to Vietnam and manufacture and conduct R&D.

A community of microchip designers with over 30 firms and 5,000 designing engineers is being formed in Vietnam.

The Science and Technology Ministry (MST) is going to apply policies and mechanisms to attract investments in semiconductor research, as concluded in its quarterly press conference.

A number of US technology firms have announced ambitious investment plans for investment in Vietnam.

A production transition and the trend of diversifying global supply chains will bring opportunities to Vietnam to seek a position in the semiconductor industry.

During his working visit to the US recently, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked Vietnamese and American enterprises to cooperate in key business fields, especially the semiconductor industry.

Hana Micron, a semiconductor company of the Republic of Korea (RoK), plans to pour US$1 billion into chip production in Vietnam by 2025, the latest in a wave of semiconductor investments flooding into the country.

Intel has spent USD 1.5 billion on a chip factory in Vietnam and will expand its investment in the near future.

Vietnam is in a prime position to develop a robust semiconductor industry, heard participants at the Vietnam Business Summit 2023 on Friday in Hanoi.

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