Microchip, this is what moves between Italy and the EU
Minister Urso announced the Commission's go-ahead for state aid for the Ipcei Me/Ct on microprocessors. Italy will participate with four companies and subsidies for 1 billion. But France and Germany allocate far greater resources
Enterprise Minister Adolfo Urso expressed "great satisfaction" with the European Commission's green light yesterday for the IPCEI ME/CT project on microprocessors. It includes fourteen member countries of the European Union: Italy, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Spain.
The project, as Urso explained, "concerns research and development on innovative solutions related to microelectronics and technology projects along the entire value chain".
“WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK”, SAYS URSO
"We are on the right track to create full connectivity of the country on the economy of the future", added the minister. Semiconductors are in fact the main enabling technology especially of the digital transition (they are used in electronic devices and artificial intelligence systems, for example), but also of the ecological one (they are present in large numbers in electric vehicles).
THE ITALIAN "CHIPS ACT".
Urso also anticipated that the government is working on a "national microelectronics plan" which will be included in a broader "Italian Chips Act" and presented to the Council of Ministers before the summer break. This is the Italian version of the Chips Act , the European Union's plan to stimulate the semiconductor sector, worth 43 billion euros. Brussels wants to reduce Europe's dependence on East Asia for microchips by doubling its manufacturing share from 9 to 20 percent of the global total by 2030.
THE COMPANIES INVOLVED AND THE AID
Italy participates in the ME/CT project with four companies: STMicroelectronics (Italian-French, owned by the Ministry of Economy), MEMC (part of the Taiwanese GlobalWafers group), Menarini Silicon Biosystems (of the Florentine group of the same name) and SIAE Microelettronica.
Yesterday the European Commission authorized Italy to disburse state aid to the four companies for almost 1 billion euros, for a total investment in the country exceeding 2.5 billion.
MEANWHILE, FRANCE AND GERMANY…
In France, STMicroelectronics will receive a 2.9 billion subsidy for the construction of an 18-nanometer semiconductor factory in Crolles; about a thousand new jobs will be created. French chip plan is worth 5.5 billion.
The government of Germany will support a 17 billion investment by US Intel in a microchip factory with a subsidy of 6.8 billion, which could be increased to 10.
ALL NUMBERS OF IPCEI ME/CT
IPCEI stands for “Important Project of Common European Interest”. ME/CT involves fourteen member states, fifty-six companies (even small ones) and sixty-eight projects. It will receive public funding totaling 8.1 billion, which should encourage 13.7 billion in private investment.
As explained Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the European Union's Internal Market, the IPCEI ME/CT aims to cover every link in the semiconductor value chain: tools (even automated) for design; production machinery; materials (such as wafers); manufacturing technologies, packaging and testing of devices.
The first microprocesses developed and manufactured under the IPCEI ME/CT are expected to be available by 2025, but the project is expected to be completed by 2032. The direct jobs created are expected to be more than 8500.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/microprocessori-ipcei-me-ct/ on Fri, 09 Jun 2023 10:47:50 +0000.