BSIA advances Bangladesh’s “Silicon River” vision through strategic engagements with SK hynix, KAIST Global Commercialization Center, and leading Korean semiconductor firms to boost research, advanced packaging, AI systems, and commercialization collaboration.
The Bangladesh Semiconductor Industry Association (BSIA) completed another major day of engagements during its South Korea Semiconductor Roadshow, advancing Bangladesh’s long-term “Silicon River” vision through strategic industry, research, packaging, and commercialization collaborations.
The day began with an exclusive tour of SK hynix’s advanced semiconductor packaging facilities, providing the BSIA delegation with direct exposure to AI-era memory integration, advanced packaging technologies, and heterogeneous integration workflows.
The delegation later held strategic discussions with Dr. Charles Ahn, President of SK hynix’, and senior leadership including the Vice President of Packaging Technology.
Professor Muhammad Mustafa Hussain of Purdue University delivered a presentation outlining Bangladesh’s emerging semiconductor ecosystem and emphasizing that Bangladesh’s long-term strategy is fundamentally innovation-driven-- focused on enabling globally relevant applications, products, AI-driven systems, and advanced engineering capabilities.
The presentation highlighted that while supply chains evolve over time, the greatest semiconductor value is ultimately created through meaningful products, systems, and innovation ecosystems embraced globally.
SK hynix leadership positively received the presentation and indicated that the company would internally evaluate future engagement models and follow-up opportunities related to Bangladesh’s evolving semiconductor ecosystem.
BSIA President Mr. M A Jabbar participated throughout the engagements and emphasized the importance of building a coordinated ecosystem integrating research, commercialization, talent development, industry participation, and global collaboration.
The delegation later visited Hana Micron, one of South Korea’s major OSAT companies, to explore future collaboration opportunities in advanced packaging and workforce development.
A major milestone of the day was the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) between KAIST Global Commercialization Center (GCC), CREST, and BSIA.
The collaboration framework focuses on semiconductor research, commercialization, advanced packaging, startup ecosystems, AI semiconductor systems, talent development, and industry-academia integration between Bangladesh and South Korea.
During the ceremony, Mr. Jabbar described the agreement as “a carefully designed alignment between research, commercialization, and ecosystem integration,” emphasizing that sustainable semiconductor ecosystems require strong pathways between knowledge creation and real-world deployment.
Professor Hussain also presented CREST’s growing international engagement and highlighted the strategic importance of connecting research, advanced packaging, AI-centric systems, commercialization, and scalable talent development into a unified ecosystem framework.
In less than six months since its launch, CREST has already established collaborative engagement with institutions including NUS, Taiwan Institute of Semiconductor Research, KAUST, and now KAIST.
Parallel to the institutional engagements, Bangladeshi semiconductor design houses participated in technical and business discussions with Korean companies PineS and Synic Solution regarding semiconductor design services, foundry support, MEMS technologies, sensor systems, and future engineering collaboration opportunities.
It may be mentioned here that, BSIA member companies- Dynamic Solution Innovators (DSi), iTest Bangladesh Ltd., Neural Semiconductor Ltd., Prime Silicon Technology Limited, Siliconova Ltd. and Ulkasemi Private Limited taking part in the Roadshow.
BSIA noted that the South Korea Roadshow reflects Bangladesh’s broader strategy to build a globally connected deep-tech ecosystem through innovation, advanced packaging, commercialization, talent development, and long-term international collaboration.
