Central Da Nang city held a workshop on October 10 on the development of the microchip industry.

Opening the workshop, Chairman of the Da Nang City People’s Committee Le Trung Chinh noted that under Politburo Resolution No. 43-NQ/TW, issued in 2019, on building and developing Da Nang by 2030 with a vision to 2045, one of five priorities is to develop the information technology, electronics, and telecommunications industry in close combination with the digital economy.

Pursuant to the Politburo Resolution, the People’s Committee mapped out a plan in August on the development of information technology to 2030, focusing on microchip design and production.

Under the plan, the People’s Committee set a target of the digital economy accounting for 30 per cent of the city’s GRDP by 2030. There are also to be at least 8,950 digital technology enterprises employing 115,000 workers in the field, while at least seven information technology and software industrial parks are to be built.

Da Nang currently has 2,450 digital technology enterprises, for an average of 2.3 enterprises per 1,000 people, ranking it second nationwide after Ho Chi Minh City and tripling the national average. The city has a digital technology workforce of 46,000.

Synopsys, Uniquify, ASavarti, Renesas, Synapse, FPTSemi, and Sannei Hytechs count among the microchip designers now operating in Da Nang, employing some 550 engineers.  

According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, Da Nang’s digital economy, including the information technology industry economy, the platform economy, the internet economy, and others, contributed 19.76 per cent of its GRDP in 2022.

Discussions at the workshop focused on how to build a microchip industry ecosystem in the central city and what to do to attract large foreign companies to invest in its electronics, microchip, and semiconductor industry. Among suggested solutions, mechanisms, policies, and infrastructure are considered key, as is public investment capital for building microchip design centers and innovation centers and training the necessary workforce.