This facility will be used to develop new mobile technologies and provide testing services for Vietnamese partners like VinSmart, BKAV and Viettel.

With over 3,000 engineers, Samsung’s R&D center in Hanoi, scheduled for completion in late 2022, would be one of the company’s main R&D hubs globally.

Around 3,000 local engineers to be employed by the R&D center would lead the development of science and technology in Hanoi, a Samsung Vietnam’s senior official has said.

The South Korean investor considers Vietnam an important global production hub and a strategic destination in its research and development activities.

Vietnam has exceeded its role as Samsung’s global production hub and would soon become its key R&D center in the future.