The Gen-Z students at the heart of Vietnam's chip plans
The Peninsula
Hanoi: Nguyen Phuong Linh is among a crop of young electronics students crucial to Vietnam s ambitions to become a chips hub. She s driven, smart a...
Hanoi: Nguyen Phuong Linh is among a crop of young electronics students crucial to Vietnam's ambitions to become a chips hub.
She's driven, smart and already has her sights set on a professorship -- wanting to train a new generation that could help woo foreign investors eager to diversify semiconductor production away from China and Taiwan.
Long viewed as a low-cost destination to make clothes, shoes and furniture, Vietnam is now eyeing a rapid climb up the global supply chain and has put computer chips at the heart of its development plans.
It is a goal that suits nations such as the United States -- increasingly worried about economic tensions with Beijing -- but there are huge hurdles to overcome, chiefly a shortage of highly skilled engineers.
