At the meeting, Mr. Ho Ky Minh emphasized that semiconductor industry was identified as the driving force for the breakthrough development of the city in the coming time. Da Nang targets training at least 5,000 engineers in semiconductor and AI sectors to meet the demands for business expansion of local and foreign investors by the year 2030. Currently, the city has 37 training institutions with annual enrollment quota of around 5,700 students. Over the past time, training institutions in the city has started forming partnership with high-quality insitutions from the U.S., Republic of Korea, Taiwan (China), etc to align the training quality with international standards. Permanent Vice Chairman of Da Nang People’s Committee also urged ASU to support the city in terms of developing talent pipeline for semiconductor and AI sectors.

Permanent Vice Chairman of Da Nang People's Committee Ho Ky Minh and Vice Provost of ASU Jeffrey Goss (Photo: Bao Da Nang)

Vice Provost of ASU Jeffrey Goss noted that ASU was the largest comprehensive public research university in the U.S. with more than 140,000 students and annual R&D expenditure reaching up to 670 million USD. ASU has also emerged as a leader for the U.S. in semiconductor manufacturing, research and education. Mr. Jeffrey Goss shared to his host the experience of Arizona State in general regarding the building of provincial-level semiconductor industry development roadmap and ASU in particular with regard to the development of education ecosystem to meets the demand of its industry and government partners at scale in Arizona and beyond.

On this occasion, representatives of training institutions in the city also discussed with representatives of Asu on the best practices in deploying academic programs and devising training cirriculum as well as proposals on sending lecturers and researchers to ASU for enhancing teaching capabilities.