A excessive-level taskforce on the semiconductor sector will work with the Bangladesh Investment Pattern Authority (BIDA) to make a roadmap for sectoral sing, focusing on attempting out, assembly, and scaling up chip originate capabilities.
The decision was once adopted in a stakeholder meeting titled “Semiconductors – A Fresh Frontier for the Bangladesh Economic system and Employment,” chaired by M Siraz Uddin Miah, vital secretary to the Chief Adviser at BIDA Headquarters this day (18 December), reads a press assertion.
“We are forming a taskforce with representatives from industry, academia, the diaspora, and authorities to name obstacles and imply actionable alternate choices. I urge stakeholders to leverage BIDA as a one-pause platform to align authorities policies and priorities,” acknowledged M Siraz Uddin Miah.
Mashuque Rahman, founding father of Inexperienced Quest, delivered the keynote presentation, highlighting priority areas within the semiconductor worth chain and recommendations for sing.
“Bangladesh for the time being generates roughly $6 million each year from semiconductor actions, essentially by built-in circuit originate companies and products. Alternatively, the downstream stages of packaging, assembly, and attempting out supply immediate opportunities for expansion. Per this day’s discussions, our next steps will point of curiosity on coverage trend, promotion, and means building,” acknowledged Ashik Chowdhury, govt chairman of BIDA and BEZA.
“Moreover updating our university curricula, we now must boost our trend of coaching and be obvious our college students are taking the figuring out home. We are racy to maintain interaction additional with university college students to attend them note the job description,” acknowledged Mohammed Enayetur Rahman, Founder and CEO of ULKASEMI, a Silicon Valley-essentially based mostly semiconductor originate companies and products firm.
Key recommendations in the meeting included ensuring intellectual property (IP) protections; introducing semiconductor-centered capabilities in opt out universities; introducing shared coaching companies and products and horny non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) for global promotion etc.
