Vice chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Ho Ky Minh shared the plan at a working session with a delegation from Oregon State, stressing that Da Nang University of Economics and the private Duy Tan University are key training bases for manpower in the semiconductor and AI industries. 

Minh said the two local universities, in partnership with institutions from Oregon State, should expand exchanges of educational programmes in these priority sectors.

He added that Da Nang will host Economy-Finance-Technology Week this July, featuring a series of investment promotion and business matching events.

The vice chairman also urged businesses and universities from Oregon State to explore investment and co-operation opportunities with local partners during the conference, noting that the two sides had exchanged visits in recent years.

Representatives of Oregon State also raised concerns over the development of the deep-sea Lien Chieu Port, logistics, forwarding services and the building of a Free Trade Zone in the city.

Oregon State will share experience with Da Nang City in semiconductors and AI, seaports, airports, logistics and an international finance centre.

During a previous working visit to Oregon State last year, Da Nang authorities sought support in hi-tech industries, semiconductors and AI, agriculture and the food industry, chip design, logistics and Free Trade Zone infrastructure.

A working team from Oregon State visited the newly launched Da Nang City Software Park No 2, the Da Nang Semiconductor and AI Centre for Research and Training and the management board of the Special Economic Zone Authority for Free Trade Zone development.

Da Nang has built partnerships with Oakland in California, Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and Houston in Texas.

The city’s investment promotion centre reported that US investors had poured US$871.54 million into 100 projects in tourism, real estate, hi-tech and electronics.

Da Nang has also received four ODA projects from the US worth US$129.99 million.

The centre said 25 businesses were operating in semiconductor and AI, data centre and semiconductor advanced packaging laboratory (VSAP LAB) projects with a total investment of US$124 million.

A list of 14 businesses is operating in chip design and semiconductor facilities, including Synopsys, Uniquify, Renesas, Synapse (now Quest Global), Sannei Hytechs, Mixel Vietnam, Marvell Vietnam, Sibridges Vietnam, Ideas2Silion Vietnam, FPT Semiconductor, Viettel Hi-Tech and Acronics.

Da Nang has also called for co-operation and investment programmes from Intel, Marvell Technology Group and Synopsys to help build the city into a global semiconductor manufacturing centre.

Universal Alloy Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of aircraft components for aerospace companies from the US, began producing aircraft components at Da Nang Sunshine Aerospace in 2020.

The University of Da Nang and Portland State University signed a Letter of Intent for co-operation in training human resources for the semiconductor industry in 2023.

US businesses push to expand investment, long-term cooperation in Vietnam

VOV.VN - More than 120 representatives from 52 leading US corporations will pay a working visit to Vietnam from April 14 to 16 as part of the annual senior business mission organized by the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC).