Viettel and Vietnam’s Government Cipher Committee Unveil Homegrown Security Chip

Hanoi, 11 November 2026 – Vietnam’s Government Cipher Committee and the Military Industry and Telecoms Group, known as Viettel, unveiled the VGC v1.0 security chip on 3 November. The government described it as the country’s first domestically designed security chip. It said tests showed encryption and decryption running about 15 times faster than a software-based solution performing equivalent tasks. That comparison applies to the tests reported, not to every workload or device.

For Asian semiconductor businesses and investors, the unveiling shows that Vietnam is working on chip design alongside its established ambitions in manufacturing, packaging and testing. The partners also signed an agreement to move the product towards volume production. A working and tested design is a milestone, but the announcement did not specify commercial volumes, prices or a delivery date for customers.