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Naira Badalian

Armenia`s vice-premier hosts AMD company vice-presidents 

Armenia`s vice-premier hosts AMD company vice-presidents 

ArmInfo. Armenia's Vice-Premier Hambardzum Matevosyan hosted on Wednesday Mr Amit Gupta and Jayashree Rangarajan, Corporate Vice Presidents, American multinational semiconductor company AMD. 

Participating in the meeting were Levon Ohanesyan, Director General,  Enterprise Armenia, Ara Markosian, Head of Armenia Operations,  AMD/Xilinx, and others. 

Mr Matevosyan voiced hope that the AMD Armenia branch will use the  local potential and contribute to technological solutions to global  problems. 

Speaking of the Armenian government's policy and programmes, he said  that the government's aim is encouraging startups and attracting  leading companies, to the country's IT sector. He conveyed the  government's readiness to discuss the views of the company's  development necessary for expanding its activities. 

The AMD vice-presidents briefed Mr Matevosyan on the company's work,  prospects for development and the sector's problems. He pointed out  Armenia has very many talented young people and the company will do  its best to identify and train them. 

The sides discussed cooperation and implementation of measures as  part of the government sector's digital agenda. Since the RA Ministry  of High Technologies has been implementing training programmes since  2020, thee sides discussed a possibility of joint programmes.