On the morning of December 14, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the National Steering Committee for Semiconductor Industry Development (Steering Committee) chaired the first meeting of the Steering Committee.
Also attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh, Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son; leaders of ministries, branches, central agencies; leaders of several provinces and cities; high-tech zones, educational and training establishments, and large enterprises in the technology sector.
Previously, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Decision No. 791/QD-TTg on the establishment of the National Steering Committee for the development of the semiconductor industry.
The Steering Committee is responsible for researching, advising, recommending, and proposing directions and solutions to promote the development of the semiconductor industry in Vietnam; directing and coordinating between ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies and relevant agencies and organizations to promote the development of the semiconductor industry in Vietnam.
Speaking at the opening of the first meeting of the Steering Committee, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that digital transformation, green transformation, development of circular economy, smart economy, knowledge economy, sharing economy, and night-time economy are the goals and orientations of the world.
If Vietnam wants to combine national strength and the times, it must go in the right direction of the times, accurately assess the situation and respond with timely, appropriate and effective policies, in the spirit of "keeping up, progressing together and surpassing."
In the coming period, we must achieve two 100-year goals (by 2030, the 100th anniversary of the Party's founding and by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the country's founding), which requires breakthroughs, especially in economic growth; economic growth will lead to an increase in GDP scale, an increase in per capita income, an increase in labor productivity, an improvement in the material and spiritual life of the people, and an elevation of the country's position.
The Prime Minister stated that in order to promote growth, along with renewing traditional growth drivers such as investment, export, and consumption, it is necessary to promote new growth drivers, in which digital transformation is a major driving force that countries are focusing on and shifting, considering this a revolution that establishes a new historical process and world order.
Suggesting some major orientations, the Prime Minister stated that it is necessary to raise awareness and have breakthrough thinking about the position, role and importance of new growth drivers, especially artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing; perfect institutions, give priority to selected industries; develop infrastructure, including electricity infrastructure; and train human resources.
The Prime Minister requested ministries and branches to urgently implement the Human Resources Development Program for the Semiconductor Industry to 2030, with a vision to 2050, and the Semiconductor Industry Development Strategy to 2030.
The Prime Minister also noted that digital transformation is very broad, but the core is research and development of artificial intelligence based on data, and Vietnam's artificial intelligence must be based on Vietnam's data.
Emphasizing that the current situation is very favorable, the Prime Minister requested that after issuing the meeting's conclusions, ministries and branches need to urgently get involved, actively and proactively implement tasks with high determination, great efforts, drastic actions, focus, quickly seize opportunities, turn into concrete actions, do each task properly, finish each task to turn the situation around and change the state.
The meeting assessed that recently, Vietnam has emerged as an attractive destination for investors in the semiconductor industry thanks to its high-quality human resources at competitive costs, its ability to develop infrastructure, increasingly open and transparent mechanisms and policies, and the high political determination of the Party and State leaders, especially the attention and close direction of the Prime Minister.
In the semiconductor industry value chain, Vietnam is currently participating in the following stages: design, testing, packaging of microchips, manufacturing of semiconductor-related equipment and materials, but does not have a chip manufacturing plant.
Among them, there are more than 50 chip design enterprises with an estimated workforce of more than 6,000 engineers, 7 factories for packaging and testing, with about 6,000 engineers, not including more than 10,000 technicians; enterprises in the production of equipment and materials for the semiconductor industry such as Samsung, Seojin, Coherent... have also started operating.
Implementing the Prime Minister's direction, the Ministry of Planning and Investment has supported many leading technology corporations such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm, LAM Research, Qorvo, AlChip... to shift their supply chains to Vietnam to develop research centers, expand investment, business and production in Vietnam.
Vietnam currently has 174 FDI projects in the semiconductor sector with a total registered capital of nearly 11.6 billion USD. Typically, Samsung plans to invest in 2 semiconductor testing and packaging factories in Vietnam with a total expected investment capital of about 4.1 billion USD.
In particular, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to coordinate with ministries, agencies and relevant parties to establish a Working Group to implement cooperation with NVIDIA; establish a Negotiation Group to conduct discussions and work with the leaders of NVIDIA Corporation to attract investment, concretize the cooperation plan with Vietnam and have achieved a number of breakthrough results, bringing great resonance and raising the position of Vietnam in the region and the world as a destination for high technology, semiconductor technology and artificial intelligence.
NVIDIA Corporation has signed agreements with several partners to move its production chain from other countries to Vietnam, providing graphics processing units (GPUs) and connectivity devices with a commitment to invest from 4 to 4.5 billion USD in the next 4 years in 6 localities.
On December 5, a cooperation agreement between the Vietnamese Government and NVIDIA Corporation was signed to cooperate in establishing an AI Research and Development Center and Data Center in Vietnam.
In recent times, implementing the development orientation of the semiconductor industry, Vietnam has actively promoted deepening relations with key and potential partners in the semiconductor field, making economic and scientific-technological cooperation the key content of partnership frameworks, effectively exploiting cooperation opportunities from upgrading and enhancing investment and technological relations.
Vietnam is actively implementing programs of the Technology Innovation and Security (ITSI) Fund, an important initiative of the US Chip Act.
Within the framework of the program, 120 lecturers and 4,000 students are supported to be trained and 20 universities in Vietnam to develop training programs on chip packaging and testing.
Vietnam also promotes the implementation of the Vietnam-Korea Future Partnership Project on research, development and innovation; promotes the establishment of a Vietnam-Korea Interdisciplinary Working Group to enhance cooperation in the fields of semiconductors and AI.
For Japan, basic cooperation, especially training high-quality human resources, is one of the five priorities of the Vietnam-Japan Joint Initiative in the New Era, Phase 1. It is expected that about 100 researchers will be sent to study and conduct in-depth research in Japan every year.
With Taiwan (China), initially forming cooperation mechanisms through the business association channel "International Industrial Talent Education Special Program" (INTENSE) for Vietnamese students, it is expected that each year there will be more than 1,000 Vietnamese students receiving scholarships from Taiwan to study and work in the semiconductor industry in Taiwan.
At the same time, Taiwanese business delegations are regularly organized to survey and explore investment cooperation opportunities in Vietnam. In 2024 alone, about 5 large Taiwanese semiconductor enterprises agreed on cooperation and investment plans with Vietnam.
With European countries, Vietnam has also had close cooperation with relevant partners from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium... to connect businesses, universities, research institutes, as well as provide scholarship programs for Vietnamese students and lecturers to study and work in the semiconductor field in Europe.
The above results are evidence of the efforts and drastic actions of leaders at all levels, especially the Government, Prime Minister, ministries, localities, training institutions and the business community in the development of the semiconductor industry.
TB (according to VNA)Source: https://baohaiduong.vn/khan-truong-trien-khai-phat-trien-nguon-nhan-luc-cong-nghiep-ban-dan-400423.html
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