SINGAPORE/TAIPEI — Top European chipmaker Infineon is racing to rent extra expert staff in South and Southeast Asia because the areas develop into more and more vital to the world’s semiconductor and tech provide chains.

Infineon’s Asia-Pacific president and managing director, Chua Chee Seong, informed Nikkei Asia that the corporate is recruiting extra employees in India, which is already the German chipmaker’s key Asian analysis and growth base, and that it additionally goals to considerably develop the workforce at its new Vietnam workplace to “multiple hundreds” of engineers.