Foreign Investors Boost Chip Testing and Packaging Activities in Vietnam

Reports indicate that foreign companies are enhancing their chip testing and packaging capacities in Vietnam. The semiconductor backend production sector, which is less capital-intensive compared to the more strategically significant frontend chip manufacturing in foundries, is currently dominated by China and Taiwan. However, Vietnam ranks among the fastest-growing countries in this $95 billion segment.

US-based Amkor Technology announced a plan last year to build a 200,000-square-meter factory with an investment of $1.6 billion, claiming that this facility will be the most comprehensive and advanced plant offering "next-generation semiconductor packaging capabilities." A business executive with direct knowledge of Amkor's operations in Vietnam mentioned that some of the equipment installed in the new factory has been transferred from factories in China.