Monday, August 26, 2024

"Vietnam becoming a chip-making powerhouse"

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....

....MUCH MORE

Not meaning to be rude but the think tank may want to change its name.

These folks too:

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Rest is fine.