HO CHI MINH CITY -- Amkor of the U.S. debuted a $1.6 billion chip factory in Vietnam for packaging and testing on Wednesday, the latest in a string of foreign semiconductor investments in the Southeast Asian country.
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Amkor has put its factory in Bac Ninh, a province Samsung turned into an electronics epicenter after arriving more than a decade ago. (NIKKEI montage/Source phots by AP and Getty)
HO CHI MINH CITY -- Amkor of the U.S. debuted a $1.6 billion chip factory in Vietnam for packaging and testing on Wednesday, the latest in a string of foreign semiconductor investments in the Southeast Asian country.