Ho Chi Minh City holds first microchip design competition

The microchip design competition launched on the morning of November 25, with the aim of creating human resources, searching for and incubating ideas into "made in Vietnam" chip products.

The launching ceremony was held within the framework of the National Innovation Festival (Techfest) organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee. The contest opened its online registration portal at icdesign.hochiminhcity.gov.vn until December 15 with a total prize value of 70 million VND.

Selected projects will compete in the preliminary round, training round and final round held in June 2024. The top 3 projects will be supported to develop into startups, and the top 5 projects will participate in a free training course at SHTP. In addition, project teams will have the opportunity to be recruited by microchip businesses during the competition. SunEdu Group, specializing in microchip training, and Cadence, specializing in providing chip design solutions, will participate as a companion.

Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park Le Quoc Cuong announced the first microchip design competition. Photo: Ha An — Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park Le Quoc Cuong announced the first microchip design competition. Photo: *Ha An*

Mr. Le Quoc Cuong, Deputy Manager of Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park (SHTP), said that SHTP coordinated with partners and businesses to launch the first microchip design competition to develop high-quality human resources to meet the training needs of semiconductor microchip engineers.

The competition will be held annually, focusing on university students who are passionate and talented in the field of microchips nationwide. The competition aims to train capacity associated with the design environment, promoting students' creative ideas with products serving the development of smart cities. "After the first organization, we will expand to engineers working in the business sector to participate to help ignite the passion to motivate young people to master technology," said Mr. Cuong, hoping that the competition will continue to spread nationally, helping to improve the position of the domestic microchip industry.

Dr. Nguyen Minh Son, Head of the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Information Technology (Ho Chi Minh City National University), representative of the professional council, said that the field of microchip design for smart city applications is aimed at 5 groups of chip products for fields such as IoT, communications, data, electric vehicles, and artificial intelligence. Through the contest, he hopes that authors will propose ideas, solutions, and application products for the above fields.

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