Marvell, the billion-dollar US chip designer, is opening a new research center in Vietnam with the intention of hiring about 100 more employees each year.
The information was announced on the occasion of Marvell operating 3 new offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang on September 30. Of which, the office located in eTown6 (Ho Chi Minh City) plays the role of a research and testing center (lab) for high-speed connection products.
Mr. Le Quang Dam, General Director of Marvell Vietnam, said that operations in Vietnam have grown rapidly, officially becoming the company's third largest research and development (R&D) center in the world with more than 500 engineers.
Staff working at Marvell Vietnam. Photo provided by the company
Currently, 75% of Marvell Vietnam's staff come from universities, through cooperation in training students, especially in semiconductor microchip subjects.
In April, the company joined hands with Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology to customize the training program to better suit the actual needs of this industry and bring Marvell engineers to teach. "We plan to expand this cooperation model to other universities in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang," he said. The
remaining 25% of the staff are engineers with domestic and international experience. They have a policy of supporting and attracting global talent to bring new perspectives and deep expertise to the team.
With a current capitalization of 71.5 billion USD, Marvell is a microchip and semiconductor designer serving data infrastructure, listed on Nasdaq (USA). They came to Vietnam in 2013 with 5 engineers, setting up an office in Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone, Ho Chi Minh City.
Initially, this group of engineers mainly focused on testing, then gradually participated in the entire microchip (IC) design process. In 2023, the company will increase its engineering team by 50%. After 2 years, Vietnam surpassed Israel to become Marvell's third largest research and development (R&D) center, after the US and India.
Previously, to test high-speed connection products from 200 GB to 1.6 TB, Marvell Vietnam sent samples to labs in the US, Taiwan or Singapore. Now with the new lab at eTown6, engineers directly test the products they design quickly, without interruption.
Mr. Dam said Vietnamese engineers are participating in the most advanced and complex technology projects. For example, the 1.6 TB per second ODSP optical connection chip used in the company's data center was handled by a team of Vietnamese engineers almost entirely from the design stage.
Vien Thong
According to VnExpress