April 28th, 2025 – FPT Semiconductor has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Restar Corporation, a leading Japanese semiconductor group. This significant milestone marks the expansion of strategic collaboration between Vietnam and Japan, with a shared goal of accelerating the semiconductor industry growth in both countries and on a global scale.
About Restar Corporation – Japan
Headquartered in Tokyo, Restar Corporation is a prominent player in the global semiconductor industry. The company specializes in high-quality semiconductor design, manufacturing, and testing solutions, with its strong capabilities in automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). With a diversified technological ecosystem and robust research and development (R&D) capacity, Restar has played a key role as a strategic partner in FPT Semiconductor’s journey to advance cutting-edge semiconductor solutions in Vietnam.
Within the framework of this partnership, Restar is committed to contributing advanced semiconductor technologies, along with supporting the Research and Development (R&D) towards innovating customized solutions to meet Vietnam’s increasing demands in semiconductor particularly and in the Southeast Asia’s semiconductor field as well.
Key Areas of Strategic Collaboration
Boosting Trade and Expanding Market for Semiconductor Chips
According to the MoU, Restar will serve as an official distributor of integrated circuits (ICs) which are designed and produced by FPT Semiconductor. Leveraging the companies’ expansive business networks and existing customer ecosystems, this strategic partnership aims to expand its market share, particularly across Asian countries. The collaboration sets a target of 10 million chip units sold within the next three years, which has potentially built a solid foundation for the global presence of “Chip Made in Vietnam, Made by FPT.”
Joint Research and Chip Design Initiatives
Moreover, this MOU enables FPT Semiconductor and Restar to co-develop Research and Development (R&D) projects to produce globally competitive semiconductor chips. The partnership focuses on sharing and transfering technical expertise and fostering a “technical synergy” between both sides. Additionally, joint workforce exchange programs and knowledge-sharing initiatives are being considered to strengthen human capital and broaden engineering capabilities.
Semiconductor Testing and OSAT Services
The two companies would establish the collaboration on building an optimal supply chain for post-silicon testing and packaging services (OSAT), which ensure notably product quality and stability across the semiconductor value chain for their global presences.
Advancing the Offshore Development Model
With its strengths in technical expertise and the global project execution, FPT Semiconductor is likely to promote an offshore development model in Vietnam. This model would offer comprehensive circuit designs, simulation, functional verifications, and embedded software development services to international clients.
FPT Semiconductor’s Commitment to a Sustainable Semiconductor Ecosystem
At the signing ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Vinh Quang, CEO of FPT Semiconductor showed our commitment to enhance collaborations with business partnership to potentially build sustained, self-reliant and globally competitive semiconductor ecosystems in Vietnam and in the global scale and Restar would be one of the most important links in the strategic partnerships. Besides, partnering with Restar Corporation is not only a growth catalyst for FPT Semiconductor, but an essential step related to transforming Vietnam’s long-term vision: (1) mastering core technologies gradually, (2) attracting the investment capabilities, (3) nurturing high-quality human resources and (4) integrating more comprehensively into the global semiconductor value chain.
Embracing strategies and solid technical foundations, FPT Semiconductor has acted as the pioneer in Vietnam’s semiconductor ecosystems. Furthermore, our company remains dedicated to contributing Vietnam’s semiconductor growth, which desires to drive Vietnam as the next semiconductor hub in Southeast Asia.
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