Japanese businesses should soon invest in the semiconductor sector in Vietnam.

(Chinhphu.vn) – With the goal of becoming a regional semiconductor hub and an important “link” in the semiconductor supply chain, Vietnam has been attracting many large foreign investors. With the foundation of good political and economic relations between the two countries, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung said that Japanese enterprises, specifically Kioxia Corporation, should take advantage of the opportunity to soon invest in the semiconductor sector in Vietnam.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung and the delegation worked with Kioxia Group - Photo: VGP/Thu Sa

On the morning of May 27, in Mei province, Japan, within the framework of a working trip to attend the 30th Future of Asia Conference, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung and his delegation visited and worked with Kioxia Group.

Founded in 2018, Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory Corporation) is Japan's leading memory manufacturer with a market capitalization of approximately $8.1 billion.

Kioxia specializes in developing and manufacturing flash memory (NAND) and solid-state drives (SSDs) for fields such as cloud computing, smartphones, supercomputers and automobiles.

The Deputy Prime Minister suggested that the two sides strengthen cooperation to open large-scale, systematic, high-quality training centers - Photo: VGP/Thu Sa

Up to now, the Group has received a total of 50 Vietnamese workers, of which 9 are currently working at the factory in Mie province; 3 engineers are working at the Group's Research Center. Kioxia leaders said that Vietnamese workers enjoy good treatment, are highly qualified, work hard, are responsible and are fully capable of taking on positions equivalent to Japanese engineers.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung and his delegation visited Vietnamese workers working at Kioxia - Photo: VGP/Thu Sa

After listening to Mr. Wantanbe Tomoharu, Executive Vice President, introduce the Group, the Deputy Prime Minister highly appreciated Kioxia's development and said that in the context of exploding storage demand, Kioxia's role will be increasingly important in shaping the global digital technology infrastructure.

Expressing his delight that Vietnamese workers enjoy good treatment and have made positive contributions to the Group in particular and the Japanese economy in general, the Deputy Prime Minister suggested that Kioxia should establish a database to connect workers who have been working for the Group; support highly qualified Vietnamese engineers who have mastered technology and techniques and want to start a business and participate in the semiconductor supply chain; and have a training and internship cooperation program for Vietnamese students.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung and his delegation visited Kioxia Group - Photo: VGP/Thu Sa

Vietnam has issued a Strategy for Semiconductor Industry Development, established a National Steering Committee for Semiconductor Industry Development headed by the Prime Minister and is synchronously implementing many solutions to develop the semiconductor industry ecosystem such as: Establishing an Investment Support Fund, implementing a Project to train 50,000 semiconductor engineers, attracting FDI and promoting public-private and private-private cooperation in the stages of the semiconductor industry...

The Deputy Prime Minister suggested that the two sides strengthen cooperation to open large-scale, systematic, high-quality training centers; build data centers, research and development (R&D) centers, especially coordinate with the Hanoi People's Committee to soon sign a MOU to realize the investment project to produce AI semiconductor chips at Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung and his delegation visited Kioxia Group - Photo: VGP/Thu Sa

"Vietnam is fully converging to develop the semiconductor industry and Kioxia's choice of Vietnam is an extremely correct decision," the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized and wished Kioxia to develop more and more and soon have many investment projects in Vietnam.

Photo: VGP/Thu Sa

Thanking the Deputy Prime Minister for his encouragement and good feelings for the Group, Mr. Wantanbe Tomoharu said that Kioxia will study and implement in practice the Deputy Prime Minister's profound instructions on expanding the reception of Vietnamese engineers, participating in training semiconductor human resources and strengthening cooperation with Vietnamese ministries, branches and enterprises./.

Thu Sa

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