On the afternoon of November 17 local time, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Da Nang City Nguyen Van Quang led a delegation of city leaders to visit and work with the Company. Nvidia in Silicon Valley (California, USA).
At the meeting, leaders of Da Nang city and leaders of Nvidia Company discussed global artificial intelligence (AI) development trends and the potential to establish and expand cooperation between the Company and Nvidia. city, especially in the context of US and Vietnam relations developing to a new level with a focus on promoting investment cooperation and innovation.
Đà Nẵng và lãnh đạo Công ty Nvidia chụp ảnh lưu niệm
With the global AI fever, Nvidia, along with its strength in manufacturing components for AI, is predicted to surpass many formidable competitors to become the chip design company with the highest revenue in the world in 2023. Talking to leaders of Da Nang city, Ms. Shilpa Kolhatkar, Global Director of AI Nations and Deputy Director of Nvidia Office, said that the Company highly appreciates Vietnam’s efforts in building a favorable investment environment for US microchip and semiconductor businesses. The company hopes that in the coming time, there will be many cooperation programs in the field of microchips and semiconductors with Vietnam in general and Da Nang in particular.
Speaking at the meeting, City Party Secretary Nguyen Van Quang said that based on promoting its strengths, in the semiconductor industry development strategy, Da Nang is focusing on promoting chip design, microchip and gradually develop chip testing and packaging. To realize the goal of becoming one of the leading investment destinations in the field of microchips and semiconductors in Vietnam, the city is researching and developing appropriate preferential policies, investment support, and projects. Developing high quality human resources to meet companies’ requirements. Informing Nvidia, the City Party Secretary said that the city currently has 250 microchip and electronic enterprises with 10,500 employees, including 550 microchip design engineers. The annual goal will be about 1,000 engineers graduating from prestigious universities in the city. He expected Nvidia to cooperate and support Da Nang to develop the semiconductor industry, especially in contributing to the development of preferential mechanisms and policies and investment support; technology transfer, human resource training; Support infrastructure investment and improve access to AI solutions.
Receiving the invitation of the City Party Secretary, a representative of Nvidia’s leadership said he would soon come to Da Nang to survey, research and build cooperation programs to develop the specific microchip and semiconductor industry and hoped to continue. receive the attention, companionship, and support of city leaders.
Source: IPA Đà Nẵng