Da Nang licenses US company to build $110 mln semiconductor plant

By Thuy Tien February 25, 2021 | 07:33 pm PT

An artist's impression of the semiconductor manufacturing plant United States Enterprises in Da Nang City. Photo courtesy of Da Nang Hi-tech Park and Industrial Zone.

The Da Nang Hi-tech Park and Industrial Zone has licensed the United States Enterprises to set up a $110-million semiconductor manufacturing plant.

The plant will make crystal silicon blocks, assemblies made of silicon, ceramic, quartz, sapphire stone, glass, metal, alloy, nonmetals, plastic polymers, and other semiconductor materials for semiconductor and electronics machinery and equipment.

It will be the park’s second largest foreign project. The plant will be built in two phases, with construction beginning next quarter and completed in two years.

The company is owned by Americans Ha Vinh Ly and Nhe Thi Le, who also own Hayward Quartz Technology Inc in Silicon Valley in the U.S. It supplies a number of major original equipment manufacturers.

The largest foreign investment in the park is by the Sunshine aerospace components factory belonging to another U.S. company, Universal Alloy Corporation.

The park has 23 projects, including 11 foreign-owned with an investment of $510.1 million.