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| A view of the Saigon High-Tech Park, February. 2023. — Photo cafef.vn |
HCM CITY — Located in HCM City, the Saigon High-Tech Park (SHTP) goals to grow to be a global centre for science, expertise and innovation by 2030, contributing to a inexperienced and sustainable financial transition whereas serving as the core of innovation clusters in southern Việt Nam.
In 2025, SHTP continued to claim its place as a key driver of town’s high-tech business, with an estimated manufacturing worth reaching about US$23 billion.
Destination for core expertise initiatives
Tse Kenneth, Vice President and General Manager of Intel Products Việt Nam, mentioned by the top of 2025, Intel’s cumulative export worth had exceeded $100 billion, with greater than 4 billion product items shipped globally.
Over practically 20 years of operation in Việt Nam, Intel has invested greater than $1.5 billion and created practically 6,000 jobs, together with about 2,000 staff at present working at its manufacturing facility.
He famous that many Vietnamese professionals now maintain key management positions inside Intel in Việt Nam and throughout the area, demonstrating the standard and competitiveness of the native workforce.
Alongside deploying superior applied sciences and growing breakthrough merchandise, Intel is dedicated to sustainable funding in human and the surroundings via energy-saving initiatives, carbon emission discount and company social accountability programmes.
In 2026, Intel is coordinating with the Vietnamese Government and SHTP to roll out two main initiatives: ‘AI for Leaders’ that goals at enhancing the capability of native officers, and ‘AI for the Future Workforce’ that targets college college students, Kenneth added.
SHTP at present performs a number one role in shaping Việt Nam’s semiconductor ecosystem, internet hosting practically 70 enterprises in microelectronics and data expertise, alongside virtually 30 biotechnology funding initiatives. The park has attracted world expertise giants such as Intel, Samsung and Sanofi.
Notably, the park has managed to grasp two core applied sciences: nanotechnology utilized in biomedical and power fields, and MEMS chip design and fabrication for environmental monitoring and industrial purposes. It has additionally developed an incubation mannequin linking the State, educational establishments and enterprises, with a powerful concentrate on supporting initiatives via the incubation and commercialisation phases.
Working in the direction of worldwide analysis requirements
The SHTP Research and Development Centre (SHTP Labs) serves as a hub of innovation, outfitted with state-of-the-art services for the design and packaging of miniature digital parts. Boasting a crew of extremely succesful researchers, the centre has secured 18 patents, remodeled over 20 scientific concepts into real-world merchandise, and shared its discoveries in additional than 120 scientific papers each in Việt Nam and overseas.
With its sights set excessive, SHTP Labs goals to grow to be a world-class analysis centre throughout the subsequent 5 years.
With greater than 160 energetic initiatives, SHTP’s cumulative high-tech manufacturing worth has surpassed $176 billion. The park at present holds 9 worldwide patents, practically 60 nationwide patents and 155 industrial property titles, offering a stable basis for its ambition to grow to be a global science, expertise and innovation hub by 2030 and a extremely interactive innovation nucleus of the southern key financial area.
Prof. Dr Nguyễn Kỳ Phùng, head of the SHTP administration board, mentioned that for 2045, SHTP is envisioned as an international-standard science and expertise park and the core of a extremely interactive inventive city space to help sustainable growth in HCM City and the entire southern area.
This long-term imaginative and prescient is constructed on six breakthrough pillars: software and expertise switch, infrastructure growth, human sources, science and innovation, worldwide cooperation, and digital governance. — VNA/VNS