Sydney, July 31 -- As global competition in advanced technologies intensifies, Vietnam needs to identify the strategic segments of the semiconductor value chain that it can realistically master, according to Dr Nguyen Minh Triet, Chair of Academic Council at the Vietnam Australia Innovation Network (NIC AU) and a research engineer at Archer Materials in Australia. Speaking to the Vietnam News Agency, he said that relying solely on imported technologies or participating in low-value manufacturing would make it difficult for Vietnam to move up the global value chain. Drawing on his research experience in the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Australia, Triet identified three core factors that enable a country to integrate deeply into the semicond...