(MPI) - A seminar on international cooperation in human resources development for integrated circuit (IC) design was held in Hanoi on September 1, as part of the Innovate Vietnam 2024 and the fifth anniversary of the National Innovation Centre (NIC).

Overview of the seminar. Photo: MPI

The seminar aims to implement the human resource development programme for the semiconductor industry until 2030, with a vision towards 2050, which the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MI) has researched, developed, presented, and has been approved by the Prime Minister under Decision No. 1017/QD-TTg dated September 21, 2024.

NIC Deputy Director Vo Xuan Hoai said that recently, the MPI has been a focal point to coordinate with relevant agencies, ministries and enterprises to train human resources and semiconductor engineers.

NIC also work closely with many leading technology corporations such as Cadence, Qorvo, Siemens, Google, Samsung in implementing training activities, promoting research and development (R&D) and forming a semiconductor ecosystem in Vietnam.

The coordination among state agencies, schools, and enterprises is leverage for unprecedented development and innovation in the technology sector, as well as an important factor to achieve breakthrough goals of training 50,000 semiconductor engineers by 2030, including 15,000 chip design engineers and 35,000 engineers in manufacturing, packaging, testing, and related fields.

NIC also signed cooperation agreements with leading technology corporations like Cadence, Qorvo, Marvell, and Siemens in promoting R&D, building ecosystems, developing human resources, providing scholarships, and training talented students in the semiconductor field. This comprehensive cooperation opens unprecedented opportunities for Vietnamese students and engineers to join this promising industry, Hoai stated.

He also urged them continue supporting Vietnam in commercializing innovative semiconductor solutions, implementing training programmes for students, engineers, and technology researchers in semiconductors, and introducing the latest and most suitable technologies for the semiconductor community in Vietnam.

Hoai called for partnership with the NIC to offer scholarships to talented students wishing to pursue the semiconductor industry, and fostering passion while equipping students and lecturers in the semiconductor field with adequate knowledge and practical skills.

Representatives of major tech firms shared a number of requirements for training chip design engineers, as well as their commitments and support for Vietnam in human resources development in the IC design sector.

Lecturers of two universities attending the seminar, Hanoi University of Sciences and Hanoi University of Science and Technology, thanked the MPI for connecting institutes, schools and enterprises, helping students access to high-quality human resource training programmes and courses.

They emphasized the need of actively promoting international cooperation so that Vietnam quickly seize opportunity to master semiconductor technology, and a favorable environment to foster students’ innovative capacity and nurture their dreams of being semiconductor engineers.

The seminar not only promotes international cooperation in developing human resources for semiconductor design, but is also an important step forward in the journey of Vietnamese people gradually mastering technology in the semiconductor industry. This is an important solution to enhance the breakthrough in the value of Vietnamese people in the socio-economic development strategy./.

Bao Linh

Ministry of Planning and Investment