The National Innovation Center (NIC) is cooperating with two American firms, Qorvo, Inc. and Cadence Design Systems, Inc., to train 50,000 Vietnamese semiconductor engineers by 2030.

NIC and its two U.S. partners hosted an opening ceremony for the analog integrated circuit (IC) design course and signed a memorandum of understanding on training cooperation at the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment headquarters in Hanoi on Tuesday.

During the event, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung stated that the training program aims to develop manpower for the semiconductor sector and promote a Vietnamese semiconductor ecosystem in the coming years.

Vietnam plans to invest approximately US$1 billion in training 50,000 semiconductor engineers by 2030, a strategic initiative implemented by NIC in collaboration with universities and foreign partners.

The training program can be scaled up to 100,000 semiconductor engineers in the future, the minister underlined.

Aside from Qorvo and Cadence, Vietnam is also working with American electronic design automation company Synopsys, technology provider ARM, and semiconductor giant Marvell Technology to train semiconductor engineers.

Trinh Khac Hue, general director of Qorvo Vietnam, said that the training course will focus on the fundamental theories and practical aspects of integrated circuit design.

Qorvo engineers will directly train Vietnamese participants.

Upon completion of the course, local engineers will be proficient in using Cadence's IC design software.

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