HCM City, in collaboration with Vietnam’s technology company, CMC announced on 21 February an ambitious initiative to establish the world''s first AI city model.
The Chairman of FPT, has highlighted Việt Nam''s immense potential as a high-tech investment destination, emphasising its existing technological strengths and the supportive stance of the Vietnamese government.
SSI Digital Ventures launched to provide capital support to innovative businesses, especially in the fields of digital technology and blockchain and will prioritise Vietnamese start-ups.
Việt Nam wishes to learn from experiences of countries with many achievements in this field such as Poland, as well as to promote cooperation to seek common solutions to global challenges, he said.
The central city officially opened the newly-built Đà Nẵng Software Park No 2 to provide working space for 6,000 IT engineers and investors in semiconductor and AI industries and micro chip design.
Secretary-General Tô Lâm said technology plays a key role in economic and social development and that digital transformation has become a matter of urgency to realise the Southeast Asian country’s vision to improve productivity, foster innovation and enhance living standards.
The application of digital technologies and platforms is important to drive down logistics costs and develop the industry, experts said during a conference in HCM City on January 14.
An investment proposal for a database centre project has been approved by the Đà Nẵng Hi-Tech Park and Industrial Zones Authority, marking the first of its kind in the city’s Hi-tech Park in 2025.
Việt Nam suffered over 8.4 million Remote Desktop Protocol attacks in the first six months of 2024, the highest number in Southeast Asia, according to global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.
An investment certificate on chip design has been given to SkyeChip, a Malaysia-based leader in semiconductors, to develop a project in the central city of Đà Nẵng.
Under their collaboration, VietinBank will automate 10 core processes, focusing on high-volume, repetitive tasks such as file transmission, fee monitoring and payment generation in trade finance.
