From Asia Times, August 26:
Global semiconductor makers piling into Vietnam to decouple from China and eschew much higher Western wages
Vietnam is becoming an important new player in the global semiconductor industry, a decoupling beneficiary of the US-led chip wars against China.
Vietnam’s well-educated and highly motivated engineers work for comparatively low wages, attracting various semiconductor packaging and design companies from the US, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
With a technology-oriented industrial development policy, Vietnam is following in the footsteps of Malaysia, currently the world’s sixth-largest semiconductor exporter and with 13% of the global assembly, testing and packaging industry, according to ISIS Malaysia, a think tank....
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Not meaning to be rude but the think tank may want to change its name.
These folks too:
Rest is fine.
