HO CHI MINH City — Chip program maker Synopsys is shifting financial investment and engineer instruction to Vietnam though remaining “careful” in China, the company advised Nikkei Asia just as the U.S. additional its sector to an export command list targeting Asia’s greatest overall economy.

Synopsys is 1 of a handful of U.S. companies that dominate the worldwide market for digital style automation (EDA), or chip design software. It declared on Friday that it will educate electrical engineers in Vietnam and donate program licenses for a chip layout centre to the Southeast Asian place.