and Inauguration With the creation of the European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), the EU is stepping up its efforts to build the semiconductor value chain. This will be a long and expensive process, but semiconductor research has been part of EU framework programs for many years. In the last three programs, from 2007 to 2024, project participants related to semiconductor research topics have received around €2.7 billion for over 1,179 projects.
The biggest winner during this period was Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (better known as IMEC), which received €136 million for 95 projects, 20 of which it coordinated. …
