Announcing the opening on Sept. 30 it said the office at the eTown6 tower in HCMC would function as a research and testing lab for high-speed connectivity products.

Staff at Marvell Vietnam.

Marvell Vietnam general director Le Quang Dam said it is already the company’s third-largest research and development hub globally with more than 500 engineers.

Around 75% of the company’s personnel nationwide are university graduates recruited through student training programs, especially in semiconductor design.

In April it partnered with the HCMC University of Technology to update training programs for the semiconductor industry and involved its engineers in teaching.

"We plan to introduce this partnership model to other universities in HCMC and Da Nang," Dam said.

The rest of the workforce consists of experienced engineers from Vietnam and abroad. Marvell, valued at US$71.5 billion, designs semiconductors for data infrastructure and is listed on the Nasdaq.

It first came to Vietnam in 2013 with an office at the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in HCMC, and focused on testing before moving on to integrated circuit design. In 2023 the company expanded its workforce by 50%.

Within two years Vietnam surpassed Israel to become Marvell’s third-largest R&D hub after the U.S. and India.

Marvell Vietnam previously relied on labs in the U.S., Taiwan and Singapore to test high-speed connectivity products.

The new office at eTown6 now allows engineers to carry out the process locally without delays. Dam said Vietnamese engineers are working on some of Marvell’s most advanced projects.

For instance, its ODSP optical connectivity chip with a speed of 1.6 terabytes per second was designed largely by the Vietnam team.

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