The local hi-tech industry will be the key driving force to turn Vietnam into an economic power and it has to be developed accordingly.
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A state of the art assembly line at the QSIC Vietnam company in the Ho Chi Minh City, District-9-based Hi-tech Park. (Photos by Nghia Pham) |
Vo Huu Hai, CEO of Ho Chi Minh City-based Vietnam Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC), said in a global economy, multinational hi-tech corporations play an important role in developing countries.
However this does not mean they will generate much money for the countries themselves as revenues are sent back to mother companies, he said.
If
“As the government has limited funds, it’s necessary to call for investment from venture funds and give them preferential tax policies,” Hai said.
Hai set up VSMC in 2005 and three years later the firm successfully manufactured the first energy-saving microprocessor in the country that could help mobile devices like smart phones, PDAs and digital cameras cut power consumption.
The company last year announced a plan to develop a number of solar farms in various locations in
The story of Hai and his company is, fortunately, not an exception. Many overseas Vietnamese investors and researchers like him have come back to
Kiem Le – founder of QSIC and CenterComm Corporation. Since 2005, QSIC has invested in a factory that produces electronic parts for the aviation and medical equipment industries.
Nguyen Thanh My was a technical manager of Kodak Polychrome Graphics and a researcher at
Not satisfied with his success abroad, My launched his own company in Vietnam, My Lan Group, majoring in optical electronic and printing technologies. The first factory in the southern
Another Viet kieu, Nguyen Trong Vu, was a senior technician at California-headquartered Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), a global leading firm in energy conscious computing and communications solutions.
He returned to
Two years later Vu opened Huy Hoang Company to manufacture RFID (radio-frequency identification) chips after he was convinced by
“RFID is simply a small chip that has a memory of all data,” he said. “This new technology can be applied to a wide range of fields including retail, healthcare, traffic and logistics. But it’s hardly used in
“The technology is really necessary for a fast developing country like
Source: Thanh nien
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